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Tisch Shakes Up N.Y.P.D. Staff and Orders 500 Officers Back to Key Roles

Commissioner Jessica Tisch is replacing the Police Department’s head of communications, who had clashed with reporters, and sending many officers back to patrol.

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Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch announced five new Police Department appointments on Thursday, including the replacement of a communications official who had sparred with the news media.

Who Is Friedrich Merz of Germany?

If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is offering to get the German economic engine humming again.

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Friedrich Merz, right, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, addressing Germany’s lower house of Parliament ahead of a no-confidence vote against Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, on Monday.
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