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SAN FRANCISCO - Google fired on Wednesday 28 employees who were involved in a protest against a contract with the Israeli government that the cloud-computing giant shares with its competitor, Amazon. The firings came after nine employees were arrested Tuesday while participating in sit-in protests at Google offices in Sunnyvale, Calif., and New York City. The workers were held for a few hours before being released, employees said. The employees, part of a group called No Tech for Apartheid,...
The Biden administration will reimpose oil and gas sanctions on Venezuela after President Nicolás Maduro failed to comply with a U.S.-backed agreement to allow opposition candidates and parties to run in July elections, the State Department said in a statement Wednesday. A six-month general license, issued in October as part of a deal between Maduro and the Venezuelan opposition signed in October, is scheduled to expire at midnight Wednesday and will not be renewed, the officials said. The...
The U.S. government may lose between $233 billion and $521 billion to fraud each year, according to a rough federal estimate, the first of its kind, released Tuesday. But the author of that report - the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office - simultaneously cautioned that its new figure is incomplete and imprecise because of a lack of reliable data and the inherent challenge in uncovering sophisticated schemes to steal federal funds. The watchdog, known as GAO, computed its estimate by...
Running Aces, one of the state's two horse-racing tracks, filed a federal racketeering lawsuit Tuesday claiming tribal casinos in three locations have offered card games not authorized under state law. The lawsuit by the track, which operates in Columbus in the northeast Twin Cities metro, named executives at Grand Casinos in Hinckley and Mille Lacs, owned by the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, and Treasure Island Resort & Casino, owned by the Prairie Island Indian Community. Running Aces contends...
UnitedHealth Group expects the cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit to cost the company as much as $1.6 billion this year. In a financial report released Tuesday, the Minnetonka-based health care giant said it spent about $872 million during the first quarter responding to the cyberattack. The first quarter numbers provide the fullest accounting so far of financial impacts from the hack, which forced UnitedHealth Group to shut down a widely used claims processing system to contain the...
3M was one of the first companies in the country to establish a charitable foundation in 1953. But in 2022, the Maplewood-based company quietly closed its foundation, switching to control its philanthropy internally as a company, not through a separate charitable arm. In Golden Valley, General Mills did the same in 2021, while in Minneapolis, Thrivent shuttered its foundation in 2020. While all three companies say their public generosity won't shrink without a foundation, some nonprofit leaders...
The U.S. government said Thursday that Russian government hackers who recently stole Microsoft corporate emails had obtained passwords and other secret material that might allow them to breach multiple U.S. agencies. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, an arm of the Department of Homeland Security, on Tuesday issued a rare binding directive to an undisclosed number of agencies requiring them to change any log-ins that were taken and investigate what else might be at risk. The...
Hormel Foods will pay more than $11 million to settle class-action lawsuits alleging the company worked with other pork producers to illegally fix prices and overcharge customers, according to court records. The proposed settlements, filed in federal court in Minneapolis last week, will see the Austin, Minn.-based food company end the litigation without admitting fault. Hormel will pay $2.4 million to institutional customers like restaurants and delis; $4.8 million to wholesalers and other...
Consumer Reports is calling for the removal of Lunchables from school trays across the country after discovering concerning levels of lead and sodium and a potentially harmful chemical in their packaging in products sold in stores. A petition lobbying the U.S. Department of Agriculture to get rid of the Kraft Heinz products from the National School Lunch Program has more than 14,000 signatures. Brian Ronholm, director of food policy at Consumer Reports, said the nonprofit watchdog found...
Best Buy laid off Geek Squad field agents, home-theater repair technicians and phone support specialists last week, according to current and former employees. The layoffs come amid a restructuring that includes new uses for AI in the company, like customer support. The Richfield-based retailer declined to offer a specific number of cuts to its workforce, but said affected and eligible employees will receive severance, with some offered opportunities to transfer or reapply for jobs at the...
Target Corp. is taking a new tack to combat theft at self-checkout stations. The retailer is adding a new technology at its self-checkout registers that uses cameras to detect items on scanners, alerting shoppers who leave anything unscanned, according to internal documents viewed by Bloomberg News. The technology, called TruScan, is being rolled out to all stores this year, the documents said. It could help Target track shoppers "who repeatedly fail to scan their items even after being...
Elam Baer is one of thousands of people who rely on Uber to get to work or appointments in the Twin Cities every day. So when Baer heard Uber was pulling out of the region May 1 after the Minneapolis City Council passed a law setting a minimum wage for rideshare drivers, he wasn't happy. Lyft, the other rideshare giant, says it will stop serving Minneapolis at the same time. Baer, who is chief executive of Eden Prairie-based North Central Equity, decided to do something about it. He quickly...
NEW YORK — Two Florida brothers pleaded guilty Wednesday to insider trading charges, admitting making over $22 million illegally before the public announcement in 2021 that an acquisition firm was taking former President Donald Trump's media company public. Michael and Gerald Shvartsman entered their pleas to a single count of securities fraud in Manhattan federal court, where Judge Lewis J. Liman set sentencing for July 17. The men said that they knew they were committing a crime when they made trades in October 2021 through a New York b...
After three years of scrambling to hire and train pilots, United Airlines is encouraging its aviators to take unpaid time off next month, the latest example of how woes at Boeing - including delays in aircraft delivery - are rippling through the aviation industry. Production limits imposed on Boeing after a piece of the wall blew off an Alaska Airlines plane midflight in January are in part responsible for the delays, which are forcing carriers to halt hiring and rethink schedules even as...
MyPillow is facing a court-ordered eviction from a Shakopee warehouse after the property's landlord showed the company owes more than $200,000 in rent. A Scott County judge on Tuesday said she will approve the landlord's request to vacate the property after at least four default notices were sent to the Minnesota-based pillow maker over the last six months. The latest eviction notice says the company, headquartered in Chaska, is behind in payments for February and March, owing Delaware-based...
Minneapolis, Minn. – March 26, 2024 ¬– A new hemp-derived, low-dose THC/CBD cannabis seltzer featuring the Indigenous botanicals of North America is coming next month to Minnesota. Dana Thompson, an award-winning creator and leader in the Indigenous food sovereignty movement, is launching the new social-impact adult beverage brand Heti (pronounced heh-tee). Heti, meaning "home" in the Dakota language, was inspired by the birthplace and ancestral language of Thompson's grandfather. As a woma...
SEBEKA, Minn. - Maple sap has been dripping, and in some cases gushing, weeks earlier than normal for Minnesota's maple syrup producers. The maple woods are normally just waking up and beginning to get the juices flowing in mid-March, but for producers like Les Schwartz, who taps maple and birch trees near Sebeka, Minnesota, the season has been going strong since mid-February. "This year we started a lot earlier than most years. We collected our first sap on the 22nd (of February). That's about...
HOOPA VALLEY RESERVATION, Calif. - The Hoopa Fire Department is a fortress of pinewood and eggshell-colored sheet metal against a backdrop of evergreen-blanketed hills. As the nerve center of the Hoopa Valley Tribe's emergency response services, it has taken on a new, existential importance in recent years, as climate change brings more frequent and intense wildfires to the reservation and surrounding area here in Northern California. Greg Moon, the tribe's former fire chief and director of...
. Red Lake Trading Post Easter Meat Sale - March 28th & 29th...
The Prairie Island Indian Community plans to open a cannabis dispensary this summer in Goodhue County, bringing legal marijuana sales closer than ever before to the Twin Cities. Island Peži, as the shop will be known, will open near Treasure Island Casino next to the Dakota Station convenience store in Welch. Peži, pronounced "pay-zhee," is a Dakota word for "grass." "Island Peži is a step forward in our efforts to diversify our economy and strengthen our tribe's long-term financial so...
Financial pressures are forcing North Memorial Health to eliminate 103 jobs as well as outpatient mental health services at its flagship hospital. Officials say the health system is struggling at its Robbinsdale medical center with continued growth in patients covered by government-sponsored health plans, which pay less for services than commercial health insurers. In addition, North Memorial Health learned earlier this year that Hennepin County is eliminating a $22 million subsidy that helped...
The nation's largest sugar producers stand accused of violating antitrust law and conspiring to fix prices, according to lawsuits filed in federal court in Minnesota this week. The class-action lawsuits target Edina-based United Sugar Producers and Refiners Cooperative, which includes American Crystal Sugar; Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative; and Wyoming Sugar. The lawsuits - brought by Great Harvest Bread in Duluth, Morelos Bakery in St. Paul and a Connecticut restaurant group - also named Cargill,...
Prior Lake, Minn. – The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) today announced it has partnered with LaunchPad Golf to open the company's first location in the United States. The new facility will be next to Mystic Lake Casino Hotel in Prior Lake. The two-story, 25,000-square-foot facility will include a 160,000-square-foot driving range with award-winning technology, 40 heated golf suites, two bars and a full-service restaurant. The facility will be able to serve more than 500 people. Cons...
Dollar Tree plans to shutter nearly 1,000 Family Dollar stores as the discount retailer moves to revamp its business by expanding its food aisles and array of merchandise in the $3 to $5 range. The chain announced the move Wednesday, coming after it missed quarterly sales and profit targets amid heightened competition from such rivals as Dollar General and Temu for discretionary dollars. The change also reflects inflation-weary shoppers' continued focus on necessities; though consumer prices...
WASHINGTON ? President Joe Biden is coming out in opposition to the planned sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel of Japan, saying in a statement to be released Thursday that the U.S. needs to "maintain strong American steel companies powered by American steel workers.'' In a statement obtained in advance by The Associated Press, Biden adds: ''U.S. Steel has been an iconic American steel company for more than a century, and it is vital for it to remain an American steel company that is...
