Press Digest: Wall Street Journal - June 16
16/06/2025 06:28
June 16 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
- Activist investor Barington Capital Group has built a stake in Victoria’s Secret VSCO.N and believes the lingerie retailer hasn’t lived up to its full potential, according to people familiar with the matter.
- Renault RENA.PA Chief Executive Luca de Meo plans to step down in mid-July and pursue new challenges outside the automotive industry, after having led the French carmaker for five years.
- Southwest Airlines LUV.N is adding a new cockpit alert system to help its pilots avoid dangerous situations, after carriers navigated a series of close calls at U.S. airports in recent years.
- Santos STO.AX Australia’s second-largest producer of oil and natural gas, said on Monday that it has received a takeover offer from a consortium led by Abu Dhabi National Oil Co unit XRG worth some $18.72 billion.
- A man suspected of shooting two state Democratic lawmakers was arrested late Sunday after authorities tracked him into an area with crops and woodlands in rural Minnesota, authorities said.
- A cyberattack on the Washington Post compromised email accounts of several journalists and was potentially the work of a foreign government, company officials told some affected staffers in recent days, according to people familiar with the situation.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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