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Yahoo hack: World’s biggest data breach could compromise Verizon deal and cost hundreds of millions of dollars

Analyst estimates the breach could shave $100 million to $200 million off the closing price of the deal. Yahoo on Thursday has revealed it has suffered from what could be the biggest data breach in history. While its users are still digesting the news, the massive...

Plane carrying deportees to Somalia returns to the United States

There were at least four people from Minnesota on the returned flight. By Mila Koumpilova Star Tribune A plane with deportees to Somalia, including at least four from Minnesota, returned to the United States on Friday after a stop in Senegal that authorities said did not go according...

Trump discusses concern over Qatar dispute with Gulf, Arab states in calls

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke separately to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Qatar on Sunday to discuss his "concerns about the ongoing dispute" between Qatar and its Gulf and Arab neighbors, the White House said. Trump, who is spending a long weekend...

Khat dealer given 18-year prison sentence

BLOOMINGTON — A Minnesota man was sentenced to 18 years in prison Friday for delivery of khat, a plant material considered illegal in the U.S. but widely accepted in the defendant's native Somalia. Mohamed O. Samantar, 60, was stopped by Illinois State Police in June...

One-woman show looks at war through child’s eyes

This weekend, Ifrah Mansour performs her one-woman show, "How to Have Fun in a Civil War," at the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis. The show is not only suitable for kids — it's told from a child's point of view. She says she wrote the play...

Meet Ilhan Omar, the First Somali-American US Legislator: My Win ‘Offers a Counter-Narrative to the Bigotry in the World’

BY JEFF NELSON•@NELSON_JEFF On Nov. 8, Ilhan Omar made history when she was elected the first Somali-American lawmaker in the U.S. “My election win offers a counter-narrative to the bigotry in the world,” Minnesota State Representative-elect Omar, 34, says in the new issue of PEOPLE. “This...

US giving $638m aid to Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, South Sudan

Johannesburg - The United States has announced more than $630 million in aid for Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria, where conflict has helped to cause what the United Nations calls the world's largest humanitarian crisis in more than 70 years. Saturday's statement says the...

With Trump win, Somalis fearful of future

The Burma-Shave-style signs lining the street next to Steve Sorensen’s white clapboard house don’t mince words. “Take your Muslim Somalian diaspora and put it where the sun doesn’t shine!!!” the cheery red-and-white messages proclaim. Sorensen, a retired former federal VA worker who’s lived in St. Cloud...

Somalia is Obama’s Latest Victim as US Expands Army Presence

Hundreds of raids and airstrikes are being secretly carried out by the U.S. in the country as Obama prepares to leave office. Despite his repeated public statements opposing “American boots on the ground,” President Barack Obama—just shy of the end of his time in office—...

Ilhan Omar, a Somali immigrant, wins Democratic nod for Congress

Ilhan Omar, a first-term state legislator who burst onto the national scene during the fight over President Trump’s “travel ban,” has won the Democratic nomination for Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. It’s a safe Democratic seat, held for 12 years by Rep. Keith Ellison (D),...