🌎 Rhesus Pieces: Four dried monkeys seized as illicit bushmeat at Boston airport. Some super exotic items simply don’t make for legal souvenirs, as one traveler returning to Boston from the DRC learned. Boston Herald
🌎 Standard Chartered linked to trade with sanctioned Iranian firms. Leaked transactions suggest it provided banking services to a Chinese company importing goods from two US-sanctioned Iranian firms. Bloomberg
🌎 Biden campaign joins TikTok in push for young voters. Last year, the Biden administration ordered government agencies to remove TikTok from federal government-owned phones and devices. Reuters
🌎 Inside Trump's plans to deport millions from the U.S. Trump would curtail the usual multistep deportation process by using an obscure section of the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts. Axios
🌎 Trump dreamt of a ‘Huawei killer.’ Biden is trying to unleash it. The Biden administration has committed more than $1.5B to try to persuade the world to use a technology that might allow American businesses back into the telecommunications equipment race. WaPo
🚩 Huawei’s offices in France raided by financial prosecutors CNN
🌎 Military Medals and a Famous Last Name: How a Con Man Made Off With Millions in Texas. Derek Hamm cultivated a persona of war hero turned family oilman before prosecutors stepped in. WSJ
🌎 Mexican drug cartels are targeting America’s ‘last best place’. Cartel associates have flooded Montana with fentanyl and meth and set up operations on Indian reservations, where law enforcement is scarce. NBC
🌎 How an Afghan Drug Kingpin Became Beijing’s Man in Kabul. Bashir Noorzai was once serving a life sentence in the U.S. Now he’s the key conduit for growing ties between China and the Taliban. FP
🌎 UK sanctions 'extremist' Israeli settlers in West Bank. The measures impose strict financial and travel restrictions on the four individuals, who Britain said were involved in "egregious abuses of human rights". Reuters
🚩 FinCEN Requests Comments on Renewal of the OMB Control Numbers for BSA in Connection with SARs FinCEN
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