How to Handle Trash Talk at Work

The grocery chain said it had investigated its chief executive, Rodney McMullen, and found that his actions were “inconsistent” with its business ethics policy.

Mr. Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post, recently quashed the newspaper’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Over four decades, he and his colleague James B. Steele at The Philadelphia Inquirer gained renown for resourceful, often explosive investigative journalism.