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[Source] The construction of a Chinese-owned corn mill in North Dakota will likely be halted after the U.S. Air Force flagged it as a “significant threat to national security.” Fufeng Group, an MSG and xanthan gum manufacturer based in Shandong province, China, previously bought 370 acres of farmland in Grand Forks through its American subsidiary. The city council approved the company’s $700 million proposal to build the mill last year, citing economic development success. However,… Source link

[Source] The construction of a Chinese-owned corn mill in North Dakota will likely be halted after the U.S. Air Force flagged it as a “significant threat to national security.” Fufeng Group, an MSG and xanthan gum manufacturer based in Shandong province, China, previously bought 370 acres of farmland in Grand Forks through its American subsidiary. The city council approved the company’s $700 million proposal to build the mill last year, citing economic development success. However,… Source link

BISMARCK — North Dakota will receive $4.1 million from Google as part of a massive settlement with the tech giant over its improper tracking of customers, said Attorney General Drew Wrigley on Tuesday, Nov. 29. Google will have to pay $391.5 million to 40 states according to the agreement, which Wrigley called “the largest multistate Attorney General privacy settlement in the history of the U.S.” Investigators found that Google was recording the movements of customers even when… Source link

Bill Gates just won legal approval to buy 2,100 acres of North Dakota farmland worth $13.5M — and people are ‘livid’ about it all across the state Bill Gates made his fortune in tech, but he’s now betting big on something completely different: farmland. Last week, Gates secured the legal approval for purchasing 2,100 acres of farmland from northeastern North Dakota potato growers Campbell Farms. Of course, this isn’t first time Gates has invested in the asset class. Having amassed… Source link

Lead, South Dakota–(Newsfile Corp. – June 27, 2022) – Dakota Gold Corp. (NYSE American: DC) (“Dakota Gold” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it will be included in the Russell 3000 Index, effective after the U.S. market opens on June 27th, 2022 as part of the 2022 Russell indexes annual reconstitution. “Dakota Gold’s selection for inclusion in the Russell 3000 Index represents a significant milestone for the Company,” commented Jonathan Awde, President, CEO and Director of Dakota… Source link

Another Final Four favorite is out of the NCAA women’s tournament field before the second weekend. No. 10 South Dakota knocked out No. 2 Baylor, 61-47, on the Bears’ home court to advance to the Wichita region semifinal. It’s the Coyotes’ first Sweet 16 berth and was barely in doubt after a 16-4 lead through one quarter. The Coyotes (29-5), who took down No. 7 Ole Miss in the first round, have not trailed in the tournament. They join Creighton, the 10 seed in the Greensboro region, in upending… Source link

South Dakota State was 3 shot-clock seconds away from March Madness opportunity. Not from an upset, necessarily, or even a lead, but with less than a minute to play in an NCAA men’s tournament opener in Buffalo on Thursday, the 13th-seeded Jackrabbits were down three and one stop away from a chance to take No. 4 seed Providence to overtime. Then, with the shot clock waning, Jackrabbits star Douglas Wilson flew out to contest a 3-point shot. Providence’s Jared Bynum missed it, but Wilson… Source link

Will we get a close football game on Saturday? Just one of the three games on the docket has a point spread less than a touchdown at BetMGM as the NFL begins Week 18 and the FCS champion is crowned. Let’s start with the NFL, which kicks off Week 18 with the Kansas City Chiefs’ trip to Denver (4:30 p.m. ET, ESPN/ABC). The Chiefs are favored by 10.5 points as they hope to get the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs and the Broncos are already eliminated from playoff contention. The Chiefs need to… Source link

John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said only months ago that those losing fossil fuel jobs in coal and hydraulic fracturing will find they have a better choice in jobs in either the solar industry or as wind turbine technicians. That was then. Now, a wind blade manufacturing plant located in Aberdeen, South Dakota has announced it is shutting its doors permanently in less than two months. The disappearance of Molded Fiber Glass will displace over three hundred workers… Source link

Eric Haider was born prematurely, tiny and frail, with a heart murmur. He wasn’t expected to survive. But he did. As a child, Eric, who was deaf in one ear, learned how to sign and went through years of physical therapy for the complications he endured as a preemie. But the tiny baby eventually turned into a strong, six-foot-tall man who, according to his mother, once literally gave the shirt off his back to a stranger who needed it for a job interview. “That’s who he was,” his mother… Source link