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U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, second from right, meets with business and human service leaders after speaking to the New England Council at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen gave different grades to some of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees for top federal posts during a question-and-answer session before the New England Council Friday. As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee working group that writes the FBI budget, Shaheen said he was sad that Director Christopher Wray decided he would resign three years before his term ends. “I think he’s done a very good job at the FBI and I am disappointed he is leaving before his term is up,” Shaheen said. Trump has already said he would nominate conservative activist Kash Patel to replace Wray. “I have serious concerns about what has been reported publicly about his (Patel's) statements of retribution and closing the FBI office on Day One and turning it into a museum and some of the other outrageous things he has said,” Shaheen said. On the flip side, Shaheen met with and gave high praise to Trump’s nominee for secretary of state, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, as the pair served together on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “I think he is very well qualified and thoughtful in how he is approaching the state department,” Shaheen said. Trump has called for eliminating the Department of Education (DoE), but Shaheen complemented his nomination of Linda McMahon as commissioner of that agency. Shaheen worked with McMahon when was administrator in Trump’s first term of the Small Business Administration. “I found her to be very responsive, to be a good manager and to listen. I am hopeful all of that is a good sign” she could oppose doing away with the department, Shaheen said. “Those people who think we are going to get rid of it (Department of Education) have no idea what they are talking about, to be frank.” Shaheen said she learned the value of promoting education when as governor she provided state support so that all school districts would offer kindergarten. “Education is the most important place that we can invest in,” she added. GOP officials pounced on Shaheen’s comments to declare it’s time to get rid of the federal education bureaucracy. “This doesn't make the case for keeping the DoE, at all. Since its inception every single education metric had fallen except funding,” said Chris Maidment, spokesman for the N.H. Republican State Committee. “We can, and must, do so much better for our children.” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., said New Hampshire coast guardsmen, timber industry leaders and farmers would all benefit from an emergency disaster spending bill Congress is considering in the final weeks President Biden is in office. Here, Shaheen posed with Mike Vlacich, a former regional administrator with the Small Business Administration who also once served as Shaheen's chief of staff. Kimberly Morin, a conservative activist, was even more critical. “Clearly, @SenatorShaheen is OUT-OF-TOUCH with how poorly public education is serving our children. It's time for her to retire,” Morin posted on X. Shaheen, 77, has not declared whether she will seek a fourth term when the current one ends in 2026, but the speculation is that she will. The voters put Shaheen back in the minority by giving Republicans control of the Senate this January. Despite that setback, Shaheen will make history as the first woman and ranking member of either party on the foreign relations panel. Congress is partly to blame for the U.S. being slow to respond to military equipment needs in assisting Ukraine to survive the Russian invasion, Shaheen said. “When you are trying to develop a wartime footing, you have to look at some of these things and provide flexibility” she said. The fall of the Assad regime in Syria was welcome, but it’s unclear what happens next, Shaheen said. “The bottom line here is we don’t yet know what is going to happen in Syria. It’s a defeat for (Russian dictator) Vladimir Putin and Iran which is very good news for us," Shaheen said. Shaheen recalled being on the winning side of a 10-7 Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote in 2013 to support then-President Barack Obama’s 2013 bid to get congressional authorization to launch airstrikes against Assad if he continued to use chemical weapons against his own people. The full Senate never voted on it after Assad committed to get rid of its chemical weapon stockpiles but there was evidence Assad continued to use them during a grueling civil war. “I thought we should have acted then, and we didn’t and we saw Syrians poisoned by their own government,” Shaheen added. By year’s end, Congress must pass two financial bills -- one a continuing resolution to keep the government operating and the other an emergency supplemental to deal with disaster assistance, Shaheen said. While the hurricanes down south and wildfires out west grabbed the most attention, the disaster bill would help closer to home by getting repairs for the New Hampshire Coast Guard after storms damaged a boathouse in New Castle, aid for the timber industry to fight off the spruce budworm coming from Canada and relief for Granite State farmers who lost much of their apple and stone fruit crops to storms last winter and spring. Shaheen said she would oppose, but will likely lose when the Senate GOP seeks “reconciliation” next year so it can pass bills border security and permanency to all of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts by a simple majority and avoid being blocked by a filibuster. Shaheen’s appearance was the 55th and final New England Council forum for 2024. “We saved the best for last senator,” said NEC President and CEO James Brett. klandrigan@unionleader.com

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South Korea’s has secured a large contract to supply its biometric authentication solution TouchEn OnePass to a major Japanese digital bank. Raonsecure will provide its cloud subscription service TouchEn OnePass, which is based on biometric authentication technology, to Japan’s Sumishin SBI Net Bank and NeoBank Technologies. The contract is worth 3.57 billion won (US$2.48 million), which corresponds to about seven percent of Raosecure’s total revenue last year. Sumishin SBI Net Bank is a Japanese online bank that dates to September 2007. It is one of the country’s biggest online banks, alongside leader Rakuten Bank, and both went public in 2023. Raonsecure’s TouchEn OnePass supports identity verification via biometrics such as fingerprints, iris, voice, and facial recognition. The service can be applied to industries such as banking, easy payments, gaming, and portal identity verification. Monthly active users for Raonsecure’s biometric authentication subscription service reached 5.1 million in Japan, the company . TouchEn OnePass was certified by the FIDO Alliance as a biometric authenticator in 2018. Last year, Raonsecure signed a deal with NetMove, a subsidiary of Japan-based internet bank Smithin SBI Net Bank. The company claimed it had 30 million users in Korea at the beginning of 2020, and plans to grow that user base to 700 million people in the Asia-Pacific region. Raonsecure has been conducting proof-of-concepts for its OmniOne Digital ID with large Japanese businesses. The company reached roughly 500 million won ($348,000) in overseas business last year, according to Korea’s . | | | | |

Cam Carter put LSU ahead for good with a jumper 1:08 into the third overtime and the Tigers came away with a wild 109-102 win over UCF on Sunday in the third-place game of the Greenbrier Tip-Off in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Carter's make sparked a 5-0 spurt for LSU (5-1), which mounted a ferocious second-half rally that began after Darius Johnson drilled a 3-pointer to put the Knights up 52-34 with 12:57 to play in regulation. UCF (4-2) got back within two in the third overtime, but it never found a way to draw even. Vyctorius Miller and Jordan Sears sealed the victory, combining for three buckets down low that gave the Tigers a 106-99 cushion with 17 seconds remaining. Carter was the late-game hero for LSU, scoring the final four points of regulation to forge a 70-70 tie. He also knocked down a go-ahead 3-pointer with 3:19 left in the first extra session to give the Tigers a 76-75 advantage. Sears gave LSU a four-point edge with a triple of his own with 2:10 to go, but the Tigers failed to stay in front, and UCF's Keyshawn Hall kept the game going by sinking two free throws with six seconds remaining to make it 82-82. Neither team led by more than three in the second overtime, with Hall again coming to the Knights' rescue. He made two layups in the final 52 seconds of the frame to knot things at 93 and send the teams to a third OT. Few could have predicted 15 minutes of extra basketball after UCF put together a 25-3 first-half run that lifted it to a 38-18 advantage with 2:12 left until the break. LSU responded with seven unanswered points, but the Knights still led comfortably, 40-25, at intermission. Sears finished with a game-high-tying 25 points to go along with nine boards, while Jalen Reed recorded a 21-point, 13-rebound double-double for the Tigers. Carter netted 20 points, Miller had 16 and Dji Bailey chipped in 14. Johnson collected 25 points, six rebounds, eight assists and five steals for UCF. Hall totaled 21 points and 10 boards, and Jordan Ivy-Curry supplied 20 points. LSU outshot UCF 43.2 percent to 40.7 percent and had narrow advantages from behind the arc (12 made shots to 10) and the free-throw line (21-18). --Field Level Media‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator II’ brings in $270.2M at global box office

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