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The title on HN at the current time [0] says the police chief was raided.

There is only one person mentioned and therefor "his" can only refer to that person. "His" can not refer to the newspaper.

[0] "Paper investigating police chief prior to the raids on his office and home."

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I just clicked on the thread now and it still is listed as mentioned by GP.

It says that the paper investigating the police chief was raided. I don't know many news papers that engage in raids on police, so it's pretty clear.

It doesn’t say the paper was the entity engaged in the raid. If I didn’t know the broader context, I would assume that sentence meant “A newspaper was investigating a police chief at the time the police chief’s home was raided by another law enforcement agency”. That seems way more likely than a newspaper being referred to as “him”.

not a single person here agrees with you. The title didnt say who performed the raiding. A police chief could be raided by the FBI.

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