3M relists Wonewok, its corporate retreat, for sale

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PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — 3M has placed 187.2 acres of its former corporate retreat, Wonewok, up for sale again.

The 680-acre executive getaway, located on Big Mantrap and Petit lakes north of Park Rapids, Minnesota, was originally put on the market in 2023.

In February 2025, Minnesota Land Trust and Northern Waters Land Trust announced they were purchasing 431 acres from 3M. The 16 parcels will then be donated to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to create a new Mantrap Lake Wildlife Management Area.

Six parcels, totaling 187 acres and 2.26 miles of “pristine shoreline,” are currently listed for sale with Colliers on its website at Colliers.com.

A Minnesota-based Fortune 500 company, 3M is a maker of adhesives, medical and home cleaning supplies, building materials and more.

‘An opportunity so rare’

Colliers describes Wonewok as “an opportunity so rare, it almost defies categorization.”

The setting is “a rare combination of natural lakefront beauty and purpose-built retreat infrastructure,” says Colliers.

Wonewok features 15 primary buildings dispersed throughout the property, with a gross combined building area of 58,622 square feet. According to Colliers, this includes 36 fully appointed guest rooms, six cottages and numerous activity facilities, such as a trap-shooting range, tennis courts, lodge, restaurant, driving range and putting green.

John McCarthy, senior vice president for Colliers at their Minneapolis office, said the real estate firm is “pleased with the initial interest. People look at it, and they’re just blown away.”

They do scratch their heads, he said, about how best to use the former conference center, located at 21254 County 24, Park Rapids.

Corporate entertainment “isn’t as robust as it used to be,” McCarthy said, with many companies, like 3M, trying to “right size.”

Colliers isn’t advertising an asking price, but McCarthy assures potential buyers that there was “a very good deal on it” because of 3M’s strong investment.

The property has been shown to private investors, resort owners and all sorts, according to McCarthy.

He said he’s not quite sure what the property will become, and Colliers is looking for ideas. It may not go to the highest bidder, McCarthy added.

McCarthy estimated that, within the next 45 days or so, Colliers will make a call for offers from interested parties.

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Shooting with multiple injuries reported at Reno, Nevada, casino with a suspect in custody

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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A gunman opened fire outside a casino and resort in Reno, Nevada, shooting multiple people Monday morning, police said.

The conditions of the victims were not immediately known, said Reno police spokesperson Chris Johnson. The gunman was taken into custody and was being treated at a hospital, Johnson said.

The shooting was reported around 7:30 a.m. Monday outside the casino in the valet area, Johnson said.

A spokesperson with the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department said an officer was involved in the shooting.

Reno police warned residents to stay out of the area. Multiple emergency vehicles, including several ambulances, responded outside the casino.

“My heart breaks for the victims, their families, and our entire community. Reno is strong — but we are not immune to the epidemic of gun violence gripping this nation,” city council member Devon Reese said in a social media post.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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Cyberattack on Russian airline Aeroflot causes the cancellation of more than 100 flights

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By The Associated Press

A cyberattack on Russian state-owned flagship carrier Aeroflot caused a mass outage to the company’s computer systems on Monday, Russia’s prosecutor’s office said, forcing the airline to cancel more than 100 flights and delay others.

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Ukrainian hacker group Silent Crow and Belarusian hacker activist group the Belarus Cyber-Partisans, which opposes the rule of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, claimed responsibility for the cyberattack.

Images shared on social media showed hundreds of delayed passengers crowding Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, where Aeroflot is based. The outage also disrupted flights operated by Aeroflot’s subsidiaries, Rossiya and Pobeda.

While most of the flights affected were domestic, the disruption also led to cancellations for some international flights to Belarus, Armenia and Uzbekistan.

In a statement released early Monday, Aeroflot warned passengers that the company’s information technology system was experiencing unspecified difficulties and that disruption could follow.

Russia’s Prosecutor’s Office later confirmed that a cyberattack had caused the outage and that it had opened a criminal investigation.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called reports of the cyberattack “quite alarming,” adding that “the hacker threat is a threat that remains for all large companies providing services to the general public.”

Silent Crow claimed it had accessed Aeroflot’s corporate network for a year, copying customer and internal data, including audio recordings of phone calls, data from the company’s own surveillance on employees and other intercepted communications.

“All of these resources are now inaccessible or destroyed and restoring them will possibly require tens of millions of dollars. The damage is strategic,” the channel purporting to be the Silent Crow group wrote on Telegram. There was no way to independently verify its claims.

The same channel also shared screenshots that appeared to show Aeroflot’s internal IT systems, and insinuated that Silent Crow could begin sharing the data it had seized in the coming days.

“The personal data of all Russians who have ever flown with Aeroflot have now also gone on a trip — albeit without luggage and to the same destination,” it said.

The Belarus Cyber-Partisans told The Associated Press that they had hoped to “deliver a crushing blow.” The group has previously claimed responsibility for a number of cyberattacks, and said in April 2024 that they had been able to infiltrate the network of Belarus’ main KGB security agency.

“This is a very large-scale attack and one of the most painful in terms of consequences,” group coordinator Yuliana Shametavets said. She said that the group had been preparing the attack for several months, and were able to penetrate the Aeroflot network by exploiting various vulnerabilities.

Belarus is a close ally of Russia. Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron hand for more than 30 years and has relied on Russian subsidies and support, allowed Russia to use his country’s territory to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, and to deploy some of Moscow’s tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.

Russia’s airports have repeatedly faced mass delays over the summer as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks, with flights grounded amid safety concerns.

Israeli strikes kill 36 in Gaza, including a mother and newborn, as more aid is allowed in

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By WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes killed at least 36 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Monday, including a pregnant woman and her newborn, local health officials said. Israel meanwhile eased some aid restrictions as it came under mounting pressure over the spiraling hunger crisis in the war-ravaged territory.

Israel announced Sunday that the military would pause operations in Gaza City, Deir al-Balah and Muwasi for 10 hours a day until further notice to allow for the improved flow of aid and designate secure routes for aid delivery.

Aid agencies have welcomed the new measures but say they are not enough to counter worsening starvation in the Palestinian territory.

Israel said it would continue military operations alongside the new humanitarian measures. The Israeli military had no immediate comment about the latest strikes, which occurred outside the time frame for the pause Israel declared would be held between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Newborn dies after complex surgery

The newborn died hours after being delivered in a complex surgery. She had been placed in an incubator and was breathing with assistance from a ventilator, footage from The Associated Press showed.

Her mother, Soad al-Shaer, who was seven months pregnant with her, was among 12 Palestinians killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house and neighboring tents in the Muwasi area of Khan Younis, according to Nasser Hospital, which received the bodies.

Another strike hit a two-story house in Khan Younis, killing at least 11 people, more than half of them women and children, according to the hospital. At least five others were killed in strikes elsewhere in Gaza, according to other hospitals.

The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on most of the strikes. It said it was not aware of one strike in Gaza City during the pause that health officials said killed one person.

Israel says it only targets combatants and blames civilian deaths on Hamas because the fighters operate in densely populated areas. The daily airstrikes across the territory frequently kill women and children. Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada and the European Union.

Israel allows more aid to enter

Images of emaciated children have sparked outrage around the world, including from Israel’s close allies. U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called the images of emaciated and malnourished children in Gaza “terrible.”

Israel has restricted aid to varying degrees throughout the war. In March, it cut off the entry of all goods, including fuel, food and medicine, to pressure Hamas to free hostages.

Israel partially lifted those restrictions in May but also pushed ahead on a new U.S.-backed aid delivery system that has been wracked by chaos and violence. Traditional aid providers have encountered a breakdown in law and order surrounding their deliveries.

COGAT, the Israeli military body in charge of coordinating aid shipments, said U.N. agencies collected 120 trucks for distribution on Sunday and that another 180 trucks had been allowed into Gaza.

The U.N. and aid groups say the territory needs 500-600 trucks a day to meet its needs. Israel’s blockade and military operations have destroyed nearly all food production in the territory of roughly 2 million Palestinians.

Two air force planes from Jordan and the United Arab Emirates meanwhile airdropped 17 tons of humanitarian aid in Gaza on Monday.

The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, warned that airdrops are “expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians” and won’t reverse the increasing starvation.

The 17 tons of aid would fill less than one aid truck, according to World Food Program’s calculations of almost 19 tons per aid truck.

Seven killed near aid site, officials say

The Awda hospital in central Gaza said it received the bodies of seven Palestinians who it said were killed Monday by Israeli fire close to an aid distribution site run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, an Israeli-backed American contractor. The hospital said 20 others were wounded close to the site. GHF did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Hamas started the war with its Oct. 7, 2023, attack, in which Palestinian terrorists killed some 1,200 people and abducted 251 others. They still hold 50, and Israel believed more than half the remaining hostages are dead. Most of the rest were released in ceasefires or other deals.

Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 59,800 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Its count doesn’t distinguish between fighters and civilians. The ministry operates under the Hamas government. The U.N. and other international organizations see it as the most reliable source of data on casualties.

Magdy reported from Cairo.

Follow AP’s war coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war.