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United Airlines Seeks DOT Approval For Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Los Angeles-Beijing RouteTeam India star Virat Kohli once again let the team down with a horrible dismissal during India's second innings on Day 5 of the ongoing 4th Test against Australia at the MCG on Monday. New Delhi: Virat Kohli went chasing an outside off delivery once again to get out cheaply during India’s second innings on Day 5 of the 4th Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne on Monday. Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc exploited Kohli’s weaknesses with an outside off delivery to send him packing cheaply on just 5 off 29 balls. It was a horrible dismissal for the Team India star, who has been facing intense criticism for getting out in a similar fashion throughout the series. Kohli’s weakness with the deliveries on the sixth stump line has been exploited heavily by the Australian pacers and has resulted in low returns for the senior India batter. Kohli once again let India down with his poor shot selection during the visitors’ second innings on Monday as he went chasing an outside off delivery from Starc in the 27th over. The Indian batter could have left the ball but decided to go for a drive and ended up edging it to Usman Khawaja at slips, who made no mistakes with his catch. Kohli was dismissed on 5, leaving India in a huge spot of bother at 33/3 in their 340-run chase against Australia in their second innings at the MCG. Kohli was expected to step up and deliver after India were set a strong target of 340 runs by Australia on the final day, but the India star endured yet another flop show to leave the team reeling. Watch Mitchell Starc exploits Virat Kohli’s weakness to dismiss him in 4th Test: Virat Kohli’s struggles in Border Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 There were question marks over Kohli’s form heading into the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 after his poor show in the home Test series against New Zealand. However, some of those doubts were buried after the senior India batter started the series emphatically with a century in the 1st Test against Australia in Perth. But ever since, Kohli has struggled to deliver for India and has been dismissed cheaply consistently in the last three Test matches. The India star has managed only 62 runs for India in their last three Test matches against Australia. His scores in his last six innings read – 7, 11, 3, 36 and 5. Kohli’s form has further enhanced India’s troubled in their batting line-up in the series so far. Click for more latest Cricket news . Also get top headlines and latest news from India and around the world at News9. Abhishek reports on all things sports for News9. He has been covering cricket extensively for more than five years now and is a keen follower of the game. From preserving newspaper cuts of his favourite sporting heroes to playing the game himself and then covering it from close quarters, cricket has stayed with him since childhood. He started his career with NewsX and has worked for some of the leading news organisations in the country, including Times Now and WION. He will probably be busy watching cricket/football when not crafting stories on sports and its heroes. Latest News

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans made claims about illegal voting by noncitizens a centerpiece of their 2024 campaign messaging and plan to push legislation in the new Congress requiring voters to provide proof of U.S. citizenship. Yet there's one place with a GOP supermajority where linking voting to citizenship appears to be a nonstarter: Kansas. That's because the state has been there, done that, and all but a few Republicans would prefer not to go there again. Kansas imposed a proof-of-citizenship requirement over a decade ago that grew into one of the biggest political fiascos in the state in recent memory. The law, passed by the state Legislature in 2011 and implemented two years later, ended up blocking the voter registrations of more than 31,000 U.S. citizens who were otherwise eligible to vote. That was 12% of everyone seeking to register in Kansas for the first time. Federal courts ultimately declared the law an unconstitutional burden on voting rights, and it hasn't been enforced since 2018. Kansas provides a cautionary tale about how pursuing an election concern that in fact is extremely rare risks disenfranchising a far greater number of people who are legally entitled to vote. The state’s top elections official, Secretary of State Scott Schwab, championed the idea as a legislator and now says states and the federal government shouldn't touch it. “Kansas did that 10 years ago,” said Schwab, a Republican. “It didn’t work out so well.” Steven Fish, a 45-year-old warehouse worker in eastern Kansas, said he understands the motivation behind the law. In his thinking, the state was like a store owner who fears getting robbed and installs locks. But in 2014, after the birth of his now 11-year-old son inspired him to be “a little more responsible” and follow politics, he didn’t have an acceptable copy of his birth certificate to get registered to vote in Kansas. “The locks didn’t work,” said Fish, one of nine Kansas residents who sued the state over the law. “You caught a bunch of people who didn’t do anything wrong.” Kansas' experience appeared to receive little if any attention outside the state as Republicans elsewhere pursued proof-of-citizenship requirements this year. Arizona enacted a requirement this year, applying it to voting for state and local elections but not for Congress or president. The Republican-led U.S. House passed a proof-of-citizenship requirement in the summer and plans to bring back similar legislation after the GOP won control of the Senate in November. In Ohio, the Republican secretary of state revised the form that poll workers use for voter eligibility challenges to require those not born in the U.S. to show naturalization papers to cast a regular ballot. A federal judge declined to block the practice days before the election. Also, sizable majorities of voters in Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina and the presidential swing states of North Carolina and Wisconsin were inspired to amend their state constitutions' provisions on voting even though the changes were only symbolic. Provisions that previously declared that all U.S. citizens could vote now say that only U.S. citizens can vote — a meaningless distinction with no practical effect on who is eligible. To be clear, voters already must attest to being U.S. citizens when they register to vote and noncitizens can face fines, prison and deportation if they lie and are caught. “There is nothing unconstitutional about ensuring that only American citizens can vote in American elections,” U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, of Texas, the leading sponsor of the congressional proposal, said in an email statement to The Associated Press. After Kansas residents challenged their state's law, both a federal judge and federal appeals court concluded that it violated a law limiting states to collecting only the minimum information needed to determine whether someone is eligible to vote. That's an issue Congress could resolve. The courts ruled that with “scant” evidence of an actual problem, Kansas couldn't justify a law that kept hundreds of eligible citizens from registering for every noncitizen who was improperly registered. A federal judge concluded that the state’s evidence showed that only 39 noncitizens had registered to vote from 1999 through 2012 — an average of just three a year. In 2013, then-Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican who had built a national reputation advocating tough immigration laws, described the possibility of voting by immigrants living in the U.S. illegally as a serious threat. He was elected attorney general in 2022 and still strongly backs the idea, arguing that federal court rulings in the Kansas case “almost certainly got it wrong.” Kobach also said a key issue in the legal challenge — people being unable to fix problems with their registrations within a 90-day window — has probably been solved. “The technological challenge of how quickly can you verify someone’s citizenship is getting easier,” Kobach said. “As time goes on, it will get even easier.” The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the Kansas case in 2020. But in August, it split 5-4 in allowing Arizona to continue enforcing its law for voting in state and local elections while a legal challenge goes forward. Seeing the possibility of a different Supreme Court decision in the future, U.S. Rep.-elect Derek Schmidt says states and Congress should pursue proof-of-citizenship requirements. Schmidt was the Kansas attorney general when his state's law was challenged. "If the same matter arose now and was litigated, the facts would be different," he said in an interview. But voting rights advocates dismiss the idea that a legal challenge would turn out differently. Mark Johnson, one of the attorneys who fought the Kansas law, said opponents now have a template for a successful court fight. “We know the people we can call," Johnson said. “We know that we’ve got the expert witnesses. We know how to try things like this.” He predicted "a flurry — a landslide — of litigation against this.” Initially, the Kansas requirement's impacts seemed to fall most heavily on politically unaffiliated and young voters. As of fall 2013, 57% of the voters blocked from registering were unaffiliated and 40% were under 30. But Fish was in his mid-30s, and six of the nine residents who sued over the Kansas law were 35 or older. Three even produced citizenship documents and still didn’t get registered, according to court documents. “There wasn’t a single one of us that was actually an illegal or had misinterpreted or misrepresented any information or had done anything wrong,” Fish said. He was supposed to produce his birth certificate when he sought to register in 2014 while renewing his Kansas driver's license at an office in a strip mall in Lawrence. A clerk wouldn't accept the copy Fish had of his birth certificate. He still doesn't know where to find the original, having been born on an Air Force base in Illinois that closed in the 1990s. Several of the people joining Fish in the lawsuit were veterans, all born in the U.S., and Fish said he was stunned that they could be prevented from registering. Liz Azore, a senior adviser to the nonpartisan Voting Rights Lab, said millions of Americans haven't traveled outside the U.S. and don't have passports that might act as proof of citizenship, or don't have ready access to their birth certificates. She and other voting rights advocates are skeptical that there are administrative fixes that will make a proof-of-citizenship law run more smoothly today than it did in Kansas a decade ago. “It’s going to cover a lot of people from all walks of life,” Avore said. “It’s going to be disenfranchising large swaths of the country.” Associated Press writer Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio, contributed to this report.Nebraska football signing day preview: Potential flips and a 5-star up for grabsAP has shortfall of specialist doctors: CAG

Gene Collier: This Trite Trophy leaves nothing on the fieldJOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — John Buggs III's 15 points helped East Tennessee State defeat Austin Peay 79-57 on Saturday night. Buggs shot 4 for 7 (3 for 5 from 3-point range) and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line for the Buccaneers (6-2). Jaden Seymour scored 13 points and added 11 rebounds. Quimari Peterson had 13 points and went 6 of 11 from the field. The Governors (4-4) were led in scoring by LJ Thomas, who finished with 15 points. Austin Peay also got 10 points, seven rebounds and two steals from Tate McCubbin. Tekao Carpenter also had eight points. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .

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MAKING the 3×3 selection trial that was hosted at the Taurama Aquatic Indoor Courts last week, were four players from Mt. Hagen. The players include PNG representative Hannah Kuwimb (Open Division), Jemina James (Open Division), Epson John (Open Division), and Arnol Makis (U23 Division). Kuwimb said: “As I have been there before, I hope one of the other three players make the final selection. This was the whole idea of me going back to my province to assist and provide the necessary skills to blood some of our rural talent. “In Hagen, the 3X3 game is not popular, as it was recently introduced into the province and the Highlands region. “So, with the experience I have, I help to run drills every Tuesdays and Thursdays during our 5×5 training,” she said. Kuwimb said they recently took part in the Highlands championships and put on a positive performance. “Our U23 men’s team won the Grand-Final, and our U23 women were runners-up. Our senior women and men were runners up and that’s where they (national selectors) identified the four of us.” To be selected is a plus as they had little preparation and support towards attending the championships, added Kuwimb. 3×3 National Coach Nick Daroa said the list is currently under review. With regards to the Selections for 3×3, we have already commenced the process and the lists are currently under review by the Executive committee for final approval. We will keep all stakeholders informed of the details once they are finalized. In the meantime, we will remotely provide training advisories with the support of BFPNG accredited coaches for the upcoming sessions, which will culminate in the selection of the final Rosters representing Team PNG.”