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Judge Allows Hunter Biden Warrants to Be Released==
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/hunter-biden-warrants-arrest/2024/01/29/id/1151420/
Hunter Biden's gun case judge ordered four search warrants to be unsealed, granting a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that was not objected to by either Biden's lawyers or prosecutors.
Delaware U.S. District Judge Maryellen Norieka issued the ruling Friday, according to the New York Post, as the son of President Joe Biden faces prosecution by special counsel David Weiss.
The warrants might contain details on the legal basis for the seizure of Hunter Biden's electronic devices and the evidence used to build the two criminal cases on unlawful firearm possession and tax fraud.
The FOIA request was reportedly made by an independent journalist after they were mentioned in court documents by Weiss' office in arguing against Hunter Biden's lawyer's bid to have charges dismissed.
There is no official word on when the documents will be released, according to the Post.
The Biden Justice Department declined to comment to the Post, and Hunter Biden's lawyers did not immediately respond. Newsmax reached out to lawyer Abbe Lowell for comment.
Among the search warrants potentially to be released:
Aug. 29, 2019 by IRS agents seeking to examine his Apple iCloud account.
Dec. 13, 2019 to examine Hunter Biden's laptop.
July 10, 2020 by IRS agents seeking to examine his Apple iCloud account.
Dec. 4, 2023 to examine electronic evidence related to the gun charge.
Hunter Biden faces felony charges related to allegedly lying about his drug use when buying a gun five years ago.
He is also facing tax evasion charges for allegedly owning $1.4 million in federal taxes between 2016-2019, according to the Post.
Weiss' special counsel's office argued in a Jan. 16 filing that the evidence and case was strong against Hunter Biden for lying on his gun background check form.
"Investigators literally found drugs on the pouch where the defendant had kept his gun," according to the prosecutors' filing.
China Is Protesting Interrogations, Deportations of Its Students at US Entry Points
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/china-us-university-students-deported-interrogation/2024/01/29/id/1151429/
The Chinese government has protested to the United States over the treatment of Chinese arriving to study in America, saying some have been interrogated for hours, had their electronic devices checked and in some cases were forcibly deported from the country.
Xie Feng, the Chinese ambassador in Washington, said dozens of Chinese have been denied entry every month for the past few months when returning to school from overseas travel or visiting relatives in China, according to a post on the Chinese Embassy website.
“When they landed at the airport, what awaited them was an eight-hour-long interrogation by officers who prohibited them from contacting their parents, made groundless accusations against them and even forcibly repatriated them and banned their entry,” he said Sunday at an event at the embassy on student exchanges. “This is absolutely unacceptable.”
The protest comes as the U.S. and China try to boost student and other exchanges to shore up their relations, which have turned confrontational in recent years over trade, technology, human rights and, more fundamentally, the future direction of the world.
Nearly 290,000 Chinese students are in the U.S., about one-third of the foreign students in the country, according to the embassy post. China has more than 1.3 million students studying abroad, more than any other country, it said.
In a separate online statement, the Chinese Embassy said it had made “solemn representations” to the U.S. government about the treatment of students arriving at Dulles airport in Washington, D.C. The statement reminded Chinese students to be cautious when entering through the airport.
It wasn't clear whether Xie's comments referenced cases only at Dulles or at other entry points as well.
China’s state media have reported at least three cases since November at Dulles where Chinese students lost their valid student visas, received a five-year entry ban and were repatriated following long hours of interrogations,
They were asked if their studies were financed by the Chinese government, if they were members of the Chinese Communist Party or its youth arm, and if their research was linked to the Chinese government, the Chinese military or key state laboratories. The students were headed to the National Cancer Institute, Yale University and the University of Maryland respectively.
At least eight Chinese entering the U.S. with valid documents were repatriated since November, according to state media reports.
The U.S. Embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Chinese Embassy statement said the affected students had their electronic devices checked, were prohibited from communicating with anyone outside and, in some cases, held for more than 10 hours. It said the actions of border control officers “have had a serious impact on the studies of international students from China and caused great psychological harm.”
The statement also said that the actions ran counter to the agreement between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping at their meeting last November to promote people-to-people exchanges.
They should have this on the border!
TSA to Expand Facial Recognition Tech at Airports
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/tsa-airports-flying/2024/01/29/id/1151430/
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is planning to expand facial recognition technology to more than 400 U.S. airports and also is partnering with the Department of Homeland Security to ensure that the new scanners are working properly, Nextgov/FCW reported Monday.
According to a TSA official, the agency is "in the beginning stages of integrating automated facial recognition capability as an enhancement to the Credential Authentication Technology devices that had been deployed several years ago."
The most current Credential Authentication Technology (CAT) scanners reportedly use facial recognition technology by taking photos of travelers and then comparing the images to those on their photo IDs. TSA debuted the CAT-2 units in 2020 and began installing them at airports in 2022.
Last year, "457 CAT-2 upgrade kits utilizing the facial recognition technology" were added, according to a TSA press release this month.
"The CAT-2 units are currently deployed at nearly 30 airports nationwide, and will expand to more than 400 federalized airports over the coming years," the TSA official told Nextgov/FCW, adding that it is currently optional to participate.
Travelers who choose not to take part in facial recognition screenings have the option of notifying a TSA agent and going through a standard ID verification process.
The official said that TSA has placed "visible signs at all airports that have CAT devices with automated facial recognition technology" and has also "updated all CAT device screens with clear language that notifies travelers they may decline having their photo taken."
The CAT-2 scanners reportedly use a one-to-one verification process, where real-time photos are compared against government-issued photo ID, such as a passport or driver's license, and then deleted from the unit.
According to Nextgov/FCW, the one-to-one process is considered to be less invasive, in terms of privacy, than one-to-many matching, where the new photo is compared to a larger sample of known individuals' images.
Photos taken for use with facial recognition technology "are not stored or saved after a positive ID match has been made, except in a limited testing environment for evaluation of the effectiveness of the technology," the agency said in a fact sheet.