Chicago Sun-Times

United Airlines to resume shipping pets

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United Airlines plans to resume shipping pets as cargo in July but will ban animals such as snub- nosed dogs that face bigger health risks during flights. The airline said Tuesday it will only accept dogs and cats. It will ban 25 breeds including pit bulls, boxers, bulldogs, pugs and Persian cats. The changes don’t affect pets in the cabin. United stopped its pet- shipping business in March after several dogs were put on wrong flights.

Amazon expanding in Boston

BOSTON— Amazon unveiled plans on Tuesday for a major expansion in Boston’s Seaport District, promising 2,000 new technology jobs even as the city remains in contention for the company’s coveted second headquarte­rs. Seattle- based Amazon announced it would move into a 430,000- square- foot “Tech Hub” in 2021 and said the new jobs would be created in fields including machine learning, speech science, cloud computing, and robotics. The company currently has about 1,200 workers in the city, according to Rohit Prasad, a Boston- based vice president and head scientist of Amazon Alexa. In 2016, the company opened a fulfillmen­t center in Fall River, Massachuse­tts, that employs more than 1,000 workers.

$ 110 mil. forex fine for Goldman Sachs

NEW YORK— Goldman Sachs Group has agreed to pay over $ 110 million to settle allegation­s that its foreign exchange traders engaged in improper conduct. Officials said Goldman traders participat­ed in chat rooms, sometimes using code names, to discreetly share confidenti­al customer informatio­n with other global bank traders to affect foreign exchange prices.

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