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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.

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Black-owned B.C. businesses get boost through grant programElle Macpherson reveals her shocking drug habit - after revealing she drank vodka 'every night'Three men have sued Sean "Diddy" Combs in New York, claiming the US hip-hop mogul drugged and raped them. or signup to continue reading The lawsuits, which were filed anonymously in a state court, add to a wave of sexual assault litigation against the rapper, producer and record executive as he also faces federal sex trafficking charges in New York. Thomas Giuffra, a New York lawyer who filed Thursday's lawsuits on the men's behalf, claimed Combs used his power and wealth to take advantage of the accusers and then ensured their silence through threats and fear. Lawyers for Combs, 55-year-old founder of Bad Boy Records, said the claims are baseless. "These complaints are full of lies," the lawyers wrote in a statement, declining to elaborate. "We will prove them false and seek sanctions against every unethical lawyer who filed fictional claims against him." The lawsuits involve incidents allegedly taking place from 2019 to 2022. The men, all identified as John Doe, say they were unwittingly served drugged drinks and then sexually assaulted by Combs and others. They each seek a jury trial and to be awarded unspecified damages from Combs. Combs has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he coerced and abused women for years, using a network of associates and employees to hold drug-fuelled, elaborately produced sexual performances known as "Freak Offs" involving male sex workers. Prosecutors say he then silenced his victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings. Combs has been seeking to be released until his trial in May but was denied bail a third time in November and remains in a federal jail in Brooklyn. 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732) National Sexual Abuse and Redress Support Service 1800 211 028 DAILY Today's top stories curated by our news team. WEEKDAYS Grab a quick bite of today's latest news from around the region and the nation. WEEKLY The latest news, results & expert analysis. WEEKDAYS Catch up on the news of the day and unwind with great reading for your evening. WEEKLY Get the editor's insights: what's happening & why it matters. WEEKLY Love footy? We've got all the action covered. WEEKLY Every Saturday and Tuesday, explore destinations deals, tips & travel writing to transport you around the globe. WEEKLY Going out or staying in? Find out what's on. WEEKDAYS Sharp. Close to the ground. Digging deep. Your weekday morning newsletter on national affairs, politics and more. TWICE WEEKLY Your essential national news digest: all the big issues on Wednesday and great reading every Saturday. WEEKLY Get news, reviews and expert insights every Thursday from CarExpert, ACM's exclusive motoring partner. TWICE WEEKLY Get real, Australia! Let the ACM network's editors and journalists bring you news and views from all over. AS IT HAPPENS Be the first to know when news breaks. DAILY Your digital replica of Today's Paper. Ready to read from 5am! DAILY Test your skills with interactive crosswords, sudoku & trivia. Fresh daily! Advertisement Advertisement

And single people are more likely to use mobility tools compared to those who are married, according to researchers from University College London (UCL) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Researchers looked at information from a group of more than 12,000 adults in England aged 50 to 89 who were tracked over a 13-year period. At the start of the study, 8,225 adults had no mobility difficulty and did not use mobility assistive products (MAPs). Some 2,480 were deemed to have “unmet need” and 1,375 were using mobility aids. During the follow-up period, there were 2,313 “transitions” where people went from having no mobility issues to needing some help with getting around. And 1,274 people started to use mobility aids. Compared with men, women were 49% more likely to transition from not needing mobility aids to needing to use them, according to the study which has been published in The Lancet Public Health. But were 21% less likely to go on to use mobility aids when they needed them. The authors said their study showed “barriers to access” for women. For both men and women, with every year that passed during the study period the need for mobility aids increased. People who were older, less educated, less wealthy or reported being disabled were more likely to “transition from no need to unmet need, and from unmet need to use”, the authors said, with this indicating a “higher prevalence of mobility limitations and MAP need overall among these groups”. They added: “Finally, marital or partnership status was not associated with transitioning to unmet need; however, single people were more likely to transition from unmet need to use compared with married or partnered people.” Jamie Danemayer, first author of the study from UCL Computer Science and UCL’s Global Disability Innovation Hub, said: “Our analysis suggests that there is a clear gender gap in access to mobility aids. “Though our data didn’t ascertain the reason why participants weren’t using mobility aids, other research tells us that women are often more likely than men to face obstacles such as cost barriers as a result of well-documented income disparities between genders. “Many mobility aids are designed for men rather than women, which we think may be a factor. “Using mobility aids can also make a disability visible, which can impact the safety and stigma experienced by women, in particular. “There’s a critical need for further research to identify and break down the barriers preventing women from accessing mobility aids that would improve their quality of life.” Professor Cathy Holloway, also from UCL, added: “Not having access to mobility aids when a person needs one can have a big impact on their independence, well-being and quality of life. “Our analysis suggests that women, in particular, regardless of other factors such as education and employment status, are not getting the support that they need.” Professor Shereen Hussein, senior author of the study and lead of the social care group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: “The research provides compelling evidence of gender disparities in accessing assistive technology, suggesting that cost, design bias, and social stigma are likely to disproportionally affect women. “This underscores the need for inclusive, gender-sensitive approaches in the design, production and inclusivity of assistive technologies.”Russian state news agencies say ousted Syrian leader Bashar Assad is in Moscow and given asylum

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The waiting game is nothing new to Kyle Walters. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * The waiting game is nothing new to Kyle Walters. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? The waiting game is nothing new to Kyle Walters. Patience is a necessity at this time of year when you’re the general manager of a successful organization that every other franchise wants a piece of. There are dozens of balls in the air once again for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ experienced GM, who may need to navigate personnel changes in the front office and to the coaching staff before he truly begins the negotiation process with the club’s pending free agents. JOHN WOODS / THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Bombers GM Kyle Walters could have a number of vacancies to fill on his coaching staff this offseason. “It’s an interesting one this year with where we’re at,” Walters said Tuesday during his 25-minute end-of-season press conference at Princess Auto Stadium. “(Head coach) Mike (O’Shea) and I have had a couple of preliminary conversations on this sort of stuff. But it’s an interesting year that until we get our staff settled... at some point we’ll have a little bit more in-depth discussions.” Potential changes on the coaching staff could come at offensive co-ordinator, as Buck Pierce is being interviewed for head coaching positions in B.C. and Edmonton. The Bombers have also given permission to the Ottawa Redblacks to interview respected defensive assistant Richie Hall for their vacant defensive co-ordinator position. Then there’s assistant GMs Ted Goveia and Danny McManus, who are reportedly both being interviewed for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats GM position. When the dust settles on those names, there will be 28 players in need of a new contract, and Walters will need to make several tough decisions on who stays and who goes before free agency begins Feb. 11, while staying below the CFL’s salary cap of $5.76 million. He already took care of one, signing kicker Sergio Castillo to a one-year deal last week. Another player, who Walters would not name, was offered a workout with a team in the National Football League. “This year we’re slightly better off than in years past by just the number of guys that are back and where we’re at,” said Walters, who had to navigate 36 pending free agents last off-season. “It never goes quick or smooth once the agents get involved. You may have an idea of a plan and that plan may go awry and there’s so many different discussions you have to be able to pivot depending on how things go through the next couple of months.” The biggest names include Brandon Alexander, Stanley Bryant, Liam Dobson, Tyrell Ford, TyJuan Garbutt, Evan Holm, Willie Jefferson, Tony Jones, Kenny Lawler, Eric Lofton, Patrick Neufeld, Jake Thomas and Kyrie Wilson. Ford and Holm are expected to be two of the most coveted young talents if they reach the open market. Losing Ford would be especially costly, as he is a Canadian playing a position that is traditionally occupied by an American player. The trickiest negotiations, Walters explained, can be with players who are working their back from a season-ending injury. There can be a big difference in the perceived value of the player between the organization and the agent. This year, that includes Adam Bighill, Dalton Schoen, Chris Streveler and Jamal Parker Jr. “(Head coach) Mike (O’Shea) and I have had a couple of preliminary conversations on this sort of stuff. But it’s an interesting year that until we get our staff settled... at some point we’ll have a little bit more in-depth discussions.” “Nobody’s interested in taking pay cuts. That’s the first one right there. Every single agent and every single player at the very least would expect to come back for what they’ve made. That’s the bare minimum, from their end, starting point,” Walters said. “Now, organizationally we may have a different view of, ‘At this point in your career we no longer see you at this price point, but we see you at this price point.’ And that’s when the fun starts, I guess.” There are a couple of factors that make this off-season particularly interesting for the Blue and Gold and how the team’s architects will approach it. None are greater than Winnipeg hosting the 112th Grey Cup next season. The timing of it couldn’t be better for where the organization is. The Bombers are coming off a third consecutive loss in the Grey Cup and many of its core players are on the wrong side of 30, leaving one more opportunity to run it back with its aging nucleus before transitioning to a new era. That transition already started last off-season when the club let some key veterans walk while giving raises to the likes of Schoen and Brady Oliveira. That also meant the team had to sacrifice at some critical positions such as returner, which was a sore spot all season and most noticeably during the playoffs as Lucky Whitehead fumbled in the Western Final and the Grey Cup. On that note, Walters is comfortable with the young talent in the building. He also isn’t buying the idea that there’s more pressure on the Bombers to be aggressive during a year it is hosting the big game. “The experience they got was invaluable,” said Walters. “...the thought process certainly is in our league, Canadian or American, (that) the growth from your first year of contributing to your second year is monumental. So we expect our young guys to come back and they’ll be much further along, you’re going to see that.” “There’s no secret to we’re really going to try this year because we’re hosting the Grey Cup. I mean, it’s no different from year to year and once we get settled in the offseason and start putting our roster together that we think can really win the Grey Cup,” he said, while adding the club would not exceed the salary cap next season. While Walters hinted the situation would need to align perfectly, this offseason also serves up an opportunity for the Bombers to set themselves up for an easy transition to their next era of quarterbacks. While Zach Collaros did not directly say next year would be his last, the lasting impression from last week’s player portion of end-of-season interviews was the veteran pivot would hang em’ up after 2025. With his contract expiring at the end of next season, things could align perfectly for a quarterback — young or experienced — to sit for a season before taking the reins. “It’ll be an interesting off-season from a quarterback standpoint of Tre (Ford), McLeod (Bethel-Thompson), where do all these free agents end up, and who’s kind of the odd man out in regards to a starting position,” said Walters. PETER POWER / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILES Finding an eventual heir for quarterback Zach Collaros is something the Bombers will be considering in the offseason. “And then can you add an experienced player maybe as a No. 2 in your room that’s won some games, that’s started some games.” Shortly after Walters’s press conference ended, news broke the B.C. Lions had traded quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. to the Calgary Stampeders, toppling the biggest player domino of the offseason less than a week after the season ended. Winnipeg Jets Game Days On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop. Ideally, Walters said, the Bombers would land a younger talent that could set them up for another long run of great play at the most important position. He also believes there could be another veteran option out there for the club to target once Collaros retires. “(The) primary focus is putting a roster together to win the Grey Cup next year, and then worrying about the following year. Which is interesting in our league with all the one-year contracts. You’ve seen teams have massive turnaround on their roster. “All the frustration of one-year contracts, there is certainly the option for a quick fix for lack of a better term. It does allow you to focus year-to-year at times.” joshua.frey-sam@freepress.mb.ca X: @jfreysam Josh Frey-Sam reports on sports and business at the . Josh got his start at the paper in 2022, just weeks after graduating from the Creative Communications program at Red River College. He’s reported primarily on amateur teams and athletes in sports and writes a weekly real estate feature for the business section. . Every piece of reporting Josh produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the ‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about , and . Our newsroom depends on a growing audience of readers to power our journalism. If you are not a paid reader, please consider . 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Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa on Dec. 5 released a report criticizing current workplace practices, particularly remote work. Ernst was appointed as the chair of the newly formed Senate Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Caucus, a caucus that collaborates with an advisory group led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to reduce government waste. According to the report, only 3% of the federal workforce teleworked daily before the COVID-19 pandemic. Ernst claims that now just 6% of federal employees work in-person full-time, while nearly one-third are entirely remote. She has reiterated this claim on Fox News. Various news outlets and Sean Hannity have also shared the 6% statistic. A VERIFY reader texted us asking if it’s true that only 6% of federal employees work in person full-time. Is it true only 6% of federal employees work in person full-time? Report by Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Survey published by the Federal News Network (FNN) American Federation of Remote Employees No, claims that only 6% of federal employees work in person full-time are false. Sen. Joni Ernst claims only 6% of federal employees report to an office, but an August report from the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) contradicts this. According to an OMB report from August 2024, 10% of federal employees work fully remotely and 54% worked fully on-site because their jobs required in-person presence. There are 2.28 million federal government employees, OMB says. The remaining 46%, about 1.1 million employees, were telework-eligible, meaning they could work remotely unless they chose to go into the office. Only 10% of employees were in fully remote roles, because they lacked a physical office to report to. According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) , telework policies vary by federal agency and an arrangement is usually made between the employee and management on how often an employee can work remotely. Ernst’s 6% figure came from a survey conducted by the Federal News Network (FNN), which publishes news and analysis impacting federal employees, not official data. The study relied on self-reported and self-selected responses from 6,338 people who said they were federal employees. After Ernst’s report citing FNN’s study was released, the article was updated with an editor’s note explaining the data’s limitations and including OMB’s actual figures. “Editor’s Note: This story was updated on Dec. 6 to clarify that the survey was a non-scientific survey of respondents who self-reported that they are current federal employees, and who were self-selected. The story was also updated to include the latest OMB data on the actual amount of telework and onsite work being performed governmentwide. This Federal Report covers initial analysis of Federal News Network’s April 2024 return-to-office survey of federal employees. The story includes results for several of the survey’s questions, but not all of them,” the FNN article says at the top. The survey aimed to “gauge [federal employees] perspectives on recent return-to-office changes at their agencies,” the FNN article says. “Of the survey respondents, about 30% said they work entirely remotely, 6% work entirely in-person and 64% were working on a hybrid schedule — a mix of in-person work and telework. The breakdown of telework versus onsite work for survey respondents differs significantly from the actual breakdown for the federal workforce overall,” the FNN article says. Elon Musk has also claimed “the number of government workers who show up in person and do 40 hours of work a week is closer to 1%.” The OMB report disproves that as well. The report says that, excluding those required to work remotely, 79.4% of working hours were spent in-person. For workers in hybrid roles – those splitting time between the office and remote settings – 61.2% of working hours were spent in-person. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) criticized the inaccurate telework statistics being recently shared, accusing “members of President-elect Trump’s transition team” of using misleading data to justify privatizing federal jobs. “Exaggerating the number of federal employees who telework and portraying those who do as failing to show up for work is a deliberate attempt to demean the federal workforce and justify the wholesale privatization of public-sector jobs,” the AFGE says. 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