Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez now possess a relatively clear path to becoming the controlling owners of the Timberwolves and Lynx.

A source confirmed majority owner Glen Taylor has agreed to transfer ownership, declining to take further legal action after losing the arbitration ruling handed down in February. That ruling concluded Taylor was not within his rights to call off the deal last year.

The ownership group led by Lore and Rodriguez is set to attain 100% control of the organization at the $1.5 billion purchase price originally agreed upon by the two sides back in 2021.

ESPN reported the NBA has started the transfer process on its end, which will ultimately include a board of governors vote that is expected to pass with ease.

The Timberwolves and Lynx now have complete clarity, and Lore and Rodriguez can now move forward with their future plans for the two teams. Likely included in those in the future: A push for a new area.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled for the Food and Drug Administration in its crackdown on sweet-flavored vaping products following a surge in teen electronic cigarette use.

But the justices’ unanimous decision throwing out a federal appeals court ruling is not the final word in the case, and the FDA could change its approach now that President Donald Trump has promised to “save” vaping.

The high court ruled that the FDA, during President Joe Biden’s administration, did not violate federal law when it denied an application from Dallas-based company Triton Distribution to sell e-juices like “Jimmy The Juice Man in Peachy Strawberry” and “Suicide Bunny Mother’s Milk and Cookies.” The products are heated by an e-cigarette to create an inhalable aerosol.

Yolonda Richardson, president and CEO of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, called the decision “a major victory for the health of America’s kids and efforts to protect them from the flavored e-cigarettes that have fueled a youth nicotine addiction crisis.”

The FDA has rejected applications for more than a million nicotine products formulated to taste like fruit, dessert or candy because their makers couldn’t show that flavored vapes had a net public benefit, as required by law.

It has approved some tobacco-flavored vapes, and recently it allowed its first menthol-flavored e-cigarettes for adult smokers after the company provided data showing the product was more helpful in quitting.

But the conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Triton, agreeing that the FDA changed its standards with little warning in violation of federal law.

While mainly ruling for the FDA on Wednesday, the Supreme Court noted that the agency had said the company’s marketing plan would be an important factor in evaluating its application. But it ultimately did not consider the marketing plan, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the court.

The appeals court was ordered to consider if the failure to do so is an important mistake that might still lead to a decision in Triton’s favor.

The FDA has so far not instituted changes to its polices on vaping. But on Tuesday, the FDA’s top tobacco regulator, Brian King, was removed from his post amid sweeping cuts to the federal health workforce that have cleared out many of the nation’s leading health experts. King oversaw hundreds of warning letters issued to companies that make, sell and distribute flavored vapes.

Police have identified a 19-year-old man who died after he was stabbed in St. Paul.

Officers responding to 911 calls about 11:30 p.m. Monday found Jay’Mier K. Givens, of St. Paul, outside a Dayton’s Bluff residence on Sixth Street near Birmingham Street. Givens had been stabbed multiple times and died at the hospital.

No one was under arrest as of Wednesday morning. Police have asked anyone with information to call the homicide unit at 651-266-5650.

Givens was not connected to the house he was found near, according to police. His homicide was the second of the year in St. Paul.

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ROCHESTER, Minn. — The National Institutes of Health has canceled a grant awarded to researchers at Mayo Clinic in Rochester.

The project, “Refinement of a Training Module to Improve Discussions of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Cancer Clinics,” received an $80,700 award from the National Cancer Institute in March 2024.

According to the grant description, the goal of the project was to create training for oncology clinicians — those who treat cancer — “focused on why and how to ask about patient sexual orientation and gender identity.” It cites a lack of data on the needs of sexual and gender minority cancer patients, who “are often diagnosed with late-stage cancer and often die from cancer prematurely.”

The NIH, under control of President Donald Trump, terminated the grant on March 20.

The Mayo Clinic had no comment, a spokesperson told the Post Bulletin.

As of April 1, no other Mayo Clinic grants appear in the data set, made public by the Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System, an arm of the U.S. Department of Human Services.

The TAGGS data set contains hundreds of grants that had been awarded to institutions across the country, all canceled by the NIH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration under “departmental authority.”

Many of the canceled grants focused on the LGBTQ+ community, racial minorities, HIV, and vaccination against COVID-19 and other diseases.

In addition to the Mayo Clinic grant, NIH has canceled funding for several projects at the University of Minnesota. The Minnesota Department of Health also lost some CDC funding, and the state Department of Human Services had several grants from SAMHSA pulled.

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