Human rights abuses have taken place at the NBA's training academies in China, a bombshell report alleges.ESPN reported on Wednesday that the young participants in the NBA program were physically beaten by Chinese instructors and were not provided proper schooling, despite commissioner Adam Silver's previous commitment that education would be "central" to the program."A former league employee compared the atmosphere…

A man alleged to be tied to the far-right "boogaloo" movement, already charged with plotting to provoke violence at Las Vegas protests, has now been accused of having child pornography, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.Stephen Parshall, 35, who is also known as "Kiwi," was charged with one count of sexual exploitation of children after investigators allegedly…

Andrew Duncomb, a Black conservative journalist, said he was stabbed during a recent protest in Portland after word leaked out that he was going to be there and he confronted a person he said was stalking him, a report said.“I was stabbed for being a conservative journalist," Duncomb, who goes by 'Black Rebel' on Twitter, told the Oregonian newspaper.Portland…

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell, who is awaiting trial in connection with the Jeffrey Epstein sexual abuse scandal, asked a federal judge Wednesday to block the planned unsealing of depositions she gave as part of a lawsuit, alleging the transcripts were leaked illegally to prosecutors seeking her conviction.The accusation came as hundreds of…

When the leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google testified via video before a House subcommittee Wednesday, hostile lawmakers demanded they explain their dominant market positions, monopoly power, and business practices that harm consumers, competitors and small businesses.The hearing became a bipartisan beat-down that left the heads of the world’s biggest tech companies bloodied but…