- These are the 5 state driver’s licenses no longer valid in Florida under new immigration law NBC 6 South Florida
- Which out-of-state driver’s licenses are invalid in Florida? WFLA
- Driver’s licenses issued to undocumented immigrants in these states are no longer valid in Florida WPTV News Channel 5 West Palm
- Gov. DeSantis announces undocumented immigrant driver licenses are invalid in Florida WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando
- Florida won’t accept special driver’s licenses from 5 states amid new immigration laws WPLG Local 10
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Governor Ron DeSantis Announces List of Invalid Out-of-State Driver Licenses Issued to Undocumented Immigrants – Governor Ron DeSantis
- Governor Ron DeSantis Announces List of Invalid Out-of-State Driver Licenses Issued to Undocumented Immigrants Governor Ron DeSantis
- Driver’s licenses issued to undocumented immigrants in these states are no longer valid in Florida WPTV News Channel 5 West Palm
- Gov. DeSantis unveils list of invalid out-of-state driver’s licenses issued to undocumented immigrants WFLA
- These are the 5 state driver’s licenses no longer valid in Florida under new immigration law NBC 6 South Florida
- Florida won’t accept special driver’s licenses from 5 states amid new immigration laws WPLG Local 10
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KDHE, KDOR will not change gender marker policies for birth certificates, drivers’ licenses – KSNT News
- KDHE, KDOR will not change gender marker policies for birth certificates, drivers’ licenses KSNT News
- Transgender Kansas residents can keep updating their documents despite a new law, governor says Yahoo News
- Governor Kelly said Kansas will still allow trans residents to change driver’s licenses and birth certificates KAKE
- Gov. Laura Kelly says Kansas to allow gender marker changes, defying Kris Kobach analysis The Topeka Capital-Journal
- Doesn’t Kris Kobach have more to do than attack the tiny minority of trans Kansans? | Opinion Kansas City Star
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Minnesota Governor Says Indian Tribes Could Start Selling Marijuana Before Regulators Approve Standard Licenses – Marijuana Moment
- Minnesota Governor Says Indian Tribes Could Start Selling Marijuana Before Regulators Approve Standard Licenses Marijuana Moment
- Marijuana is legalized, but Rochester law enforcement officials note not everything surrounding pot is legal Rochester Post Bulletin
- At Issue: June 4 — Walz signs cannabis bill into law; Rep. Omar discusses debt ceiling vote KSTP
- Feds: combining cannabis with guns or ammo is still illegal St. Paul Pioneer Press
- Marijuana legalization: Tribes could fill dispensary sales gap, Gov. Walz says FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul
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U.S. stops granting export licenses for China’s Huawei – sources
Jan 30 (Reuters) – The Biden administration has stopped approving licenses for U.S. companies to export most items to China’s Huawei, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Huawei has faced U.S. export restrictions around items for 5G and other technologies for several years, but officials in the U.S. Department of Commerce have granted licenses for some American firms to sell certain goods and technologies to the company. Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) in 2020 received permission to sell 4G smartphone chips to Huawei.
A Commerce Department spokesperson said officials “continually assess our policies and regulations” but do not comment on talks with specific companies. Huawei and Qualcomm declined to comment. Bloomberg and the Financial Times earlier reported the move.
One person familiar with the matter said U.S. officials are creating a new formal policy of denial for shipping items to Huawei that would include items below the 5G level, including 4G items, Wifi 6 and 7, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing and cloud items.
Another person said the move was expected to reflect the Biden administration’s tightening of policy on Huawei over the past year. Licenses for 4G chips that could not be used for 5g, which might have been approved earlier, were being denied, the person said. Toward the end of the Trump administration and early in the Biden administration, officials had still granted licenses for items specific to 4G applications.
American officials placed Huawei on a trade blacklist in 2019 restricting most U.S. suppliers from shipping goods and technology to the company unless they were granted licenses. Officials continued to tighten the controls to cut off Huawei’s ability to buy or design the semiconductor chips that power most of its products.
But U.S. officials granted licenses that allowed Huawei to receive some products. For example, suppliers to Huawei got licenses worth $61 billion to sell to the telecoms equipment giant from April through November 2021.
In December, Huawei said its overall revenue was about $91.53 billion, down only slightly from 2021 when U.S. sanctions caused its sales to fall by nearly a third.
Reporting by Chavi Mehta in Bengaluru, Stephen Nellis in San Francisco, and Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld in Washington; Additional reporting by David Kirton in Shenzhen; Editing by Shailesh Kuber and Stephen Coates
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Maryland begins issuing digital driver’s licenses, ID cards
The TSA has been working with Apple and several states since last year to enable the use of the digital version of credentials at airport security lanes. Maryland is the second state to offer the option. Arizonans in March were eligible to store copies of their IDs in their iPhone or Apple Watch, and to tap the feature to present their identification at TSA checkpoints at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Federal officials said the technology is available only for passengers at TSA PreCheck lanes, but the agency is working to expand the capability to other passengers. TSA spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein said expansion is limited by the availability of “credential authentication technology” readers that TSA officers use at document checkpoints.
Washington Dulles International Airport does not have the technology to accept mobile driver’s licenses, Farbstein said.
Supporters of the mobile ID envision it eventually will be accepted to enter government buildings, for purchase of alcoholic beverages and to show if pulled over by police.
The availability of mobile licenses and their acceptance as proof of identity marks a milestone, officials said, adding that the option will enhance security and privacy for ID holders, while providing a touchless option at checkpoints.
“Maryland Mobile ID in Apple Wallet offers additional security and privacy benefits than the physical state ID or driver’s license because Marylanders get to review the personal information they share with others, and use biometric authentication with Face ID or Touch ID to authorize it,” MVA Administrator Chrissy Nizer said in a statement. She said the agency expects the number of locations accepting mobile ID to grow.
More than 20 states have considered, tested or launched digital versions of driver’s licenses. Apple last year announced plans to roll out driver’s licenses and state IDs on the iPhone and Apple Watch as part of a partnership with several states, including Arizona, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma and Utah.
The D.C. Council in December approved legislation that would allow the city to issue electronic driver’s licenses and IDs. The legislation would allow people to present identification in an electronic format, such as on a smartphone, instead of a physical credential, except when prohibited by federal law.
The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles said last fall it is also looking to develop a mobile driver’s license, after it successfully tested the use of digital credentials in 2016 and concluded it was “technically feasible” to provide the option.
In Maryland, residents who have a valid state ID or license can get the mobile option in Apple Wallet on an iPhone 8 or newer, or an Apple Watch Series 4 or later, with the latest version of the operating software.
To enroll, users can tap the “plus” button at the top of the screen in Apple Wallet on their iPhone and select “Driver’s license or State ID” and follow the instructions, which includes taking a photo of their ID and a headshot to send to the MVA for verification.
Even if using the mobile ID at the airport, passengers should continue to carry their physical driver’s license or identification card, the TSA said, noting that they could still be asked to show the physical ID.
French fishermen threaten to block Channel Tunnel, ports in protest over fishing licenses
A post on Thursday from a fishermen’s group on Facebook said they would block ferries in Saint-Malo, Calais and Ouistreham “to denounce the conditions of the Brexit deal and its consequences on fishermen.”
The head of a fishermen’s association told CNN that a protest would start at 1 p.m. local time in Ouistreham and that 15 boats would block the port in the area. He said other groups would be blocking two other areas.
The fishermen said they were sending “a warning” to demand the rapid granting by the UK of post-Brexit fishing licenses.
“We don’t want handouts, we just want our licenses back. The UK must abide by the post-Brexit deal. Too many fishermen are still in the dark,” declared Gérard Romiti, the president of the national committee for maritime fisheries, according to CNN affiliate BFMTV.
The fishermen’s association told an online news conference that a large number of vehicles would be used to block access to the Eurotunnel, which is used to move goods by rail between Britain and France, according to Reuters.
The UK government responded Thursday saying it was “disappointed” by threats of protests by French fishermen.
“We look to the French authorities to ensure that there are no illegal actions and trade is not affected,” a Downing Street spokesperson said. “We have licensed nearly 1,700 EU vessels overall; our approach to licensing has been reasonable and fully in line with our commitments in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA).
“We continue to work with the Commission and the French authorities and will consider any further evidence provided to support remaining license applications.”
The protests represent the latest round of tensions in a long-running dispute between the UK and France over the rights of French and British vessels to fish in each country’s waters following Brexit.
Huawei, SMIC suppliers received billions worth of licenses for U.S. goods -documents
WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Suppliers to Chinese telecoms giant Huawei and China’s top chipmaker SMIC got billions of dollars worth of licenses from November through April to sell them goods and technology despite their being on a U.S. trade blacklist, documents seen by Reuters showed on Thursday.
According to the documents, 113 export licenses worth $61 billion were approved for suppliers to ship products to Huawei (HWT.UL) while another 188 licenses valued at nearly $42 billion were greenlighted for Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC) (0981.HK).
The data also showed that more than 9 out of 10 license applications were granted to SMIC suppliers while 69% of requests to ship to Huawei were approved over the same period.
The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs committee on Thursday voted to grant a request by its top Republican member Michael McCaul to release the licensing data, which it received from the Commerce Department in May.
House Republicans on the committee provided the documents to Reuters following the authorization, at Reuters request. The documents are expected to be posted publicly soon.
The numbers could enrage China hawks in Washington, who have made a concerted effort to deprive Chinese companies of access to advanced U.S. technology.
“It’s clearly in our national interest to increase transparency and public scrutiny on how our nation transfers its technology to an adversary,” McCaul said in a statement.
Republican senator Marco Rubio told Reuters he thinks President Joe Biden needs to explain why the companies have continued to receive “waivers.”
“It is just another example of President Biden not taking the economic and security threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party seriously,” he said.
The Commerce Department said in a statement that the release of an arbitrary snapshot of license approvals “risks politicizing the licensing process and misrepresenting the national security determinations” made by the government.
It also stressed that approved license applications do not represent actual shipments and around half of all licenses are used. It added that license applications involving Huawei and SMIC are processed under policies developed by the Trump administration and maintained by the Biden administration.
Huawei declined to comment, while SMIC did not respond to a request for comment.
Huawei was placed on a trade blacklist in May 2019 over national security concerns, forcing its U.S. suppliers and others to obtain a special license to ship goods to it. SMIC was added to the so-called entity list in December 2020, over fears it could divert advanced technology to military users.
A majority of the licenses granted did not authorize shipments of sensitive items. Of the 113 licenses approved for Huawei during the period, 80 were for non-sensitive items that only required a license because the recipient was blacklisted. For SMIC, the figure was 121 of 188.
Licenses are generally good for four years.
Reuters reported earlier this year that, during the Trump administration, $87 billion worth of licenses for Huawei were approved after it was blacklisted.
Reporting by Karen Freifeld and Alexandra Alper, Editing by Chris Sanders and Rosalba O’Brien
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Sekai Project Licenses Slobbish Dragon Princess 2, Qualia Games – News
Amairo Chocolate 2, Re;Lord 3, 2236 A.D. Secretary Stories, Tobari 2: Nightmare also licensed
Sekai Project announced during its AX Lite online panel and on social media on Saturday that it has licensed the Slobbish Dragon Princess 2, Qualia ~The Path of Promise~, Amairo Chocolate 2, Re;Lord 3 ~The demon lord of Groessen and the final witch~, 2236 A.D. Secretary Stories, and Tobari 2: Nightmare games.
Sekai Project will release Whirlpool’s Slobbish Dragon Princess 2 game on PC this year. It describes the game:
It’s been a few weeks since Judgement Day — when dragons covered the world’s skies. Humankind has been trying to adapt to a new daily life. But far beyond the skies above, the situation in the sea of stars has grown intense.
The dragons were split in half in their opinion on how to deal with humankind and in the confusion, Iris, dragon queen of the Sea and Water factions, descends to Earth, claiming the seas and barring all humans from entering them. With summer resorts and fishing shut down and even people in some countries unable to travel outside their borders, things looked bleak.
Days later, the dragon girl Dorami convinces Takeru, Haru and Suzuya to go to the beach for a vacation. What awaits Haru and the others as they approach the territory of the sea dragons? But for now, they’ll just have a barbecue. Maybe even split a watermelon.
Sekai Project previously released the first game, as well as the Slobbish Dragon Princess LOVE + PLUS side story game.
Sekai Project will release PURESIS’ Qualia ~The Path of Promise~ game on PC this year. It describes the game:
“Machina” is the world’s first android to pass the Turing Test. She’s attracted worldwide attention for her human-like qualities though there’s still some part of her that is not fully complete which shows that she still has room to grow. Incidentally, she is also dressed like a maid.
At the suggestion of his colleague, Dr. Hiro Koshino ends up taking Machina home and has her work as a maid. As Machina continues to learn and grow through her interactions with Hiro, he also begins to develop certain feelings towards her…
An android heroine and the genius hermit. This is a story of pure love where the two learn to grow together, overcome fate and find happiness.
Sekai Project plans to release Cabbage Soft’s Amairo Chocolate 2 game for PC, and it describes the story:
Yunagicho, a town lined with Western-style homes. The previous autumn was when Yuzuki came to this town and met the animal eared girls and started working with them at Cafe Setaria.
The day after Christmas, he meets a lost girl looking for a traditional sweets shop. He finds the shop, which is run by her sister and that’s when he realized that they sported magnificent rabbit ears!
Suddenly, Yuzuki finds himself working at both the cake shop, Sweet Tail and the newly opened sweet shop, Mochizuki and his days just keep getting busier. But he continues to do his best in the fun and lively days he spends with these animal eared girls.
Sekai Project released Amairo Chocolate in March 2020.
Sekai Project describes Escu:de‘s Re;Lord 3 ~The demon lord of Groessen and the final witch~ game:
A fantasy world where magic exists.
This is a story where demons lived among the denizens of the world. And it’s the demon realm that was about to face an unprecedented crisis when three “Witches of Ruin” suddenly appeared and invaded the demon country of Saarland.
Wilfried Heisenburg, son of the governor of Groessen and his army continue their quest to reclaim territories lost to the Witches and turns toward Greiz, the political center of Groessen. Once a thriving city with trains that run from there to the royal capital, it has all the appearances of an eerie ghost town. With Herford and Cologne liberated, only the Witch of Greiz remains.
As Wilfried’s forces march on Greiz, the fated hour also approaches as if to ridicule him. Thus begins his final battle.
Sekai Project previously released the Re;Lord 1 game in 2018, and will release the Re;Lord 2 game this year. The company plans to release Re;Lord 3 for PC.
Sekai Project describes Chloro’s 2236 A.D. Secretary Stories game:
This is a story about Masuko, the Personal A.I. Secretary System
(PASS) for Smart Tools* and her owner, Yotsuba.The day is January 1, 2236 A.D. and the start of the year hasn’t gone
as well as it could have.(*It’s a really awesome smartphone)
This is a nonsensical story between man and AI that seems
heartwarming but may not actually be heartwarming.There are laughs but there aren’t really any tears but in any case, it is
a visual novel about how Masuko is cute.
The company plans to release the game this summer for PC and Mac. The game is a prequel to 2236 A.D., which Sekai Project released on Steam in May 2018.
Sekai Project describes desunoya’s Tobari 2: Nightmare game:
After her last adventure, Tobari finds herself at the beach but she isn’t
there to catch a few rays. A mysterious voice calls out to Tobari,
asking for her help. With nothing else to go by, Tobari journeys to the
sea to help this mysterious person. Her journey won’t be easy as
she’ll be challenged by the denizens of the sea who aren’t keen to let
a surface dweller pass so easily. But what are the sea dwellers trying
to accomplish? And who is it that calls out to Tobari?This is a nightmare.
Just when you thought it was safe to spend a day at the beach,
desunoya is back with Tobari 2: Nightmare!This is a game that CANNOT be recommended to any normal
gamer.Tobari 2: Nightmare takes all the stages from Tobari 2: Dream Ocean
and ups the difficulty to 100! This is a gift from desunoya to those
that cleared Tobari 2: Dream Ocean and were looking for more to
challenge themselves with. Each level is filled to the brim with tricks
and other deadly elements to reduce your lives to zero!If you are a daredevil hero looking for a challenge, then this
nightmare awaits you…
Sekai Project will release the game this summer for PC. The company previously released the Tobari 2: Dream Ocean game on Steam in July 2020.
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