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Target CEO reshapes his leadership team in first big move since taking over this month

Target CEO reshapes his leadership team in first big move since taking over this month

Target CEO Michael Fiddelke is reshuffling his leadership team and making other changes shortly after stepping into the top job at the retailer that has struggled operationally. Rick Gomez, the 23-year Target veteran who oversees the chain’s vast inventory of merchandise, will leave the company.
by The Associated Press

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Watch: Immigration officials testify before House as DHS funding deadline approaches

Watch: Immigration officials testify before House as DHS funding deadline approaches

Congressional Democrats have a list of demands to reform Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But tensions between the two parties are high and the timeline is short – the stopgap bill funding DHS runs out Friday.
by Barbara Sprunt

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Silicon Tundra? Tech startups eye testing autonomous vehicles in northern Minnesota

Silicon Tundra? Tech startups eye testing autonomous vehicles in northern Minnesota

Anno.Ai and Spear.Ai want to build infrastructure to allow companies to test technologies ranging from unmanned submarines in Lake Superior to autonomous vehicles navigating abandoned underground mines on the Iron Range. 
by Dan Kraker

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Event shares what Indigenous resilience means during a time of immigration enforcement

Event shares what Indigenous resilience means during a time of immigration enforcement

Indigenous artists and performers recently held an event called "Stories for Indigenous Resilience" at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis to raise mutual aid funding for those affected by immigration enforcement activity. The event also highlighted Indigenous resilience and its meaning to performers.
by Chandra Colvin

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Creators on the front lines: Independent media and immigration actions in Minnesota

Coming up Monday at 8 p.m., MPR News host Catharine Richert talks about documenting ICE activity on the ground — and what it means to report outside traditional newsrooms in this moment.
by Catharine Richert and Cari Dwyer

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‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer

Some people thought they saw the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show, but Liam is still in hiding with his family after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas detention center.
by Regina Medina

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Kidney transplant recipient in ICE custody is finally getting meds, wife and attorney say

Kidney transplant recipient in ICE custody is finally getting meds, wife and attorney say

Javier Abreu-Vasquez, a kidney transplant recipient, was arrested by ICE in Rochester last week without his anti-rejection medication and he may have gone for days without receiving it. His wife and his attorney say he is getting meds now, but irregularly, and his care team at Mayo Clinic worry about the potential harm to his health.
by Molly Castle Work and David Schaper

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Lindsey Vonn's father tells AP her Olympic crash marks 'the end of her career' if he has any say

Lindsey Vonn's father tells AP her Olympic crash marks 'the end of her career' if he has any say

Lindsey Vonn’s father said Monday that the American superstar will no longer race if he has any influence over her decision and that she will not return to the Winter Olympics after breaking her leg in the downhill over the weekend.
by The Associated Press

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Minnesotans are being arrested for impeding ICE. What does that mean?

Minnesotans are being arrested for impeding ICE. What does that mean?

White House immigration official Tom Homan said more than 150 Minnesotans have been arrested for allegedly impeding, obstructing, or assaulting ICE officers. Of those, 85 have been charged. But lawyers say the charges are being reduced from felonies to misdemeanors or dismissed because the government doesn’t have a case.
by Nina Moini and Alanna Elder

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