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Ashcroft has named minorities to several high-level Justice posts. He upped the budget for enforcing voting rights and urged Congress to enact laws against racial profiling. During this month’s riots in Cincinnati, he went out of his way to respond to NAACP president Kweisi Mfume’s calls for action by quickly dispatching Justice Department officials to the scene. “He told me this was a priority for him personally,” says Mfume, who led the fight against Ashcroft’s nomination....

Australia finished day three of the fifth and final Test trailing England by 382 runs. The tourists need to avoid defeat to win the series outright having already retained the urn but endured a challenging day in the field as England closed on 318-8. Joe Denly was the star for England with 94, though Australia could have dismissed him for considerably fewer runs had they reviewed after Mitchell Marsh struck the opener on the pads....

Steve Smith’s second century of the match and three figures from Matthew Wade on Sunday meant England needed to bat out the day on Monday to avoid defeat at Edgbaston. But the day-five conditions were perfect for a spinner of Lyon’s quality and he took 6-49 to help dismiss the hosts for just 146. In the process, Lyon became just the fourth Australian to rack up 350 Test wickets and captain Paine waxed lyrical about his quality....

The 26-year-old inked a deal just a day after arriving in the country for a trip English cricket officials initially said was simply a family visit. Canterbury said in a statement that Stokes had signed as the team’s overseas player and would be eligible for a one-day match against Otago on Sunday. “While Ben awaits the outcome of an investigation underway in the UK, he wants to maintain his fitness and his connection with the game,” coach Gary Stead said....

Ashraful might get another chance to repair the damage he had made to his career if he performs extraordinary well in the upcoming domestic seasons, says Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) chief selector Minhazul Abedin while talking to reporters on Sunday. “Ashraful needs to perform extraordinary well in domestic cricket to be considered for another national call. Because he was out of the highest level of cricket for a long time of five years, we will need to see his fitness now,” says Minhazul....

Records, on the face of it, will portray the credentials of a cricketer. But once you dive deep into it and analyze it in greater depth, it reveals the true picture. At this juncture let us look at the record of Ashwin after his incredible achievement of bagging his 27th five-wicket hauls in Tests. Ashwin has been a champion off-spinner for India. Right from the time he made his Test debut for India in 2011, he has consistently delivered several match-winning spells and has created ripples in the opposition batsmen....

Adelaide, Dec 8 (PTI) Nathan Lyon has been using the rough patches effectively during the ongoing Indian second innings which is an indicator that Ravichandran Ashwin will have a bigger role to play during Australian second innings, reckons pacer Jasprit Bumrah. India are currently 166 runs ahead with seven wickets in hand and two days of play left in the first Test. “Ashwin will obviously play a more crucial now role because with the rough, we saw Nathan Lyon using the rough to his advantage....

Three pacers – Avesh Khan of Madhya Pradesh, M Prasidh Krishna of Karnataka and Siddarth Kaul of Punjab – along with left-arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem and leg-spinner Mayank Markande will be bowling at the nets for the next three days. Save Avesh, the other four were a part of the India A and B squads in the recently concluded Quadrangular series which also had A teams from Australia and South Africa....

Off-late, both the Asian teams have developed a fierce rivalry, with Bangladesh being backed by some recent success in the limited overs format, while Sri Lanka seems to go through a rebuilding phase after some of the greats hung their boots. It was a game that witnessed ebbs and flows before the Tigers emerged victorious by 137 runs as Sri Lanka failed to capitalize on the start provided by their seamers on a dry wicket....

The medal-winning members are planning to stitch IOA logos on their old blazers so that they are “eligible” for the official photo-op scheduled for Wednesday, non-playing captain and coach of the Indian men’s bridge team Debasish Ray said. “Initially, we were told that we will not get any kits but later (after sports ministry’s intervention) we got the jerseys but we have not still received the team blazers.” “The official reception is just round the corner so we have thought of stitching the logos on our own,” Ray said at a meet-the-press programme at the Calcutta Sports Journalists’ Club Monday....

The 65-year-old was approached by an unidentified man who brutally kicked the woman until she fell to the ground at 360 West 43rd Street just before midday on Monday. Disturbing video footage of the incident, which has been viewed almost 3 million times since it was shared by ABC7NY reporter CeFaan Kim, shows the suspect repeatedly kicking the woman in the head. Kim claimed the suspect told the victim, “f*** you, you don’t belong here” before turning to walk away....

China, Japan and Kazakhstan will be keenly fighting it out for the two gold medals that are up for grabs in Asian Games water polo, which will kick off with women’s event at the Dream Parks Aquatics Centre here Saturday. Water polo has been an official sport at the Asian Games since the very first competition in 1951 in New Delhi, India, but women’s water polo was only introduced just four years ago at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, reports Xinhua....

However, one recent announcement by Dr Disrespect and Midnight Society has received a lot of backlash online, and that is the inclusion of NFTs. Many major gaming companies have announced NFTs, just to make an about-face when hit with the huge backlash. Doc has defended this inclusion, stating that no one has to buy NFTs to play the game and explaining it’s a Founders Pass of sorts, in regard to the development of its game....

But whether this would be enough to win a war, or even deter an attack, remains a question looming between the world’s two top powers and, by extension, the rest of the world. News of the Marines’ shift to a more traditional mission with echoes of the World War II Pacific Campaign was first undertaken by Commandant General David Berger, appointed in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump, under whom a severe downturn in relations with China first occurred....

Asensio, 22, has been linked to the likes of Liverpool and Chelsea after starting just 19 of Madrid’s 38 LaLiga games last season. The Spain international was signed by Madrid in late 2014 and has played the past two seasons with the Champions League holders. Despite being linked with a move from the Santiago Bernabeu, Asensio will stay – his agent Horacio Gaggioli said on Monday. “Marco won’t move, he’ll stay with Real Madrid,” Gaggioli told Calciomercato....

Ash catches the Pokemon in the 27th episode of the season titled “A Heroic Legend! Dande’s Ultimate Battle” in Japan. The episode sees Ash and Go return to the Galar Region to see a World Coronation Match between two trainers in the Master Class: Galar Champion Leon and Gym Leader Raihan. RELATED: Pokemon Journeys Name Change Upsets Some Fans Once the battle finishes, Ash and Go meet Sonia — the granddaughter of Pokemon Sword and Shield’s Professor Magnolia — for the first time, and learn some lore surrounding Gigantamaxing....

“It was really mixing my love of cricket and travel. I loved watching TV shows by people like Michael Palin and Charley Boorman and seeing their overland journeys, and always wanted to emulate them but in my own way. And knowing that I wanted to visit Australia for the Ashes series seemed to be a perfect way of mixing them”, Miller told ICC. He added, “I had planned to take a year off work, and as a teacher that meant leaving my job in July, giving me four months before the Ashes....