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The US police officer accused of George Floyd’s murder told him to stop talking as he repeatedly gasped under the man’s knee, according to court documents. The unarmed black man cried out for his late mother and children as he said the Minneapolis policeman would kill him, transcripts from body-cam …

View photos FILE – In this May 3, 2014, file photo, Stanford men’s volleyball head coach John Kosty, second from left, looks down as players react after a 3-1 loss to Loyola in the NCAA men’s college volleyball championship at Gentile Arena in Chicago. Stanford announced Wednesday, July 8, 2020, …

FILE – In this Aug. 28, 2009 file photo, the Washington Redskins logo is shown on the field before the start of a preseason NFL football game against the New England Patriots in Landover, Md. The Washington Redskins are undergoing what the team calls a thorough review of the nickname. …

View photos Click here to read the full article. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will end its run with its upcoming Part 4, which will be released in late 2020, leading to “a spooky, sexy & supernatural series finale,” Netflix announced Wednesday. Originally developed for the CW, the Riverdale offshoot migrated …

On a silent makeshift pitch at the Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex in Florida, MLS and a number of it players made a lengthy statement Wednesday night about where they stand on racial injustice in the U.S. Players from Orlando City SC and Inter Miami CF took at knee …

LeBron James looked fidgety and nervous sitting on an elevated dais facing Jim Gray on a July evening 10 years ago. And while Gray was a handpicked selection to guide James through his dramatic “Decision,” James might as well have been staring down the athletic establishment, knowing a seismic change …

FBI Director Christopher Wray, pictured in February, described a wide-ranging campaign by the Chinese government to disrupt US life More The director of the FBI has said that acts of espionage and theft by China’s government pose the “greatest long-term threat” to the future of the US. Speaking to the …

For better or worse, the NBA is forging ahead with its plan to restart the 2019-20 season at the end of the month in Orlando, Florida. Over the next two weeks, as teams report to Walt Disney World for training camp, we will dive deep into the big-picture basketball questions …

View photos Protesters fought the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline More The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline has been ordered to suspend production by a US judge, amid concerns over its environmental impact. The order is a major win for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has led the fight …

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos via Getty/Facebook More A city council member in Norman, Oklahoma, proposed a police budget cut. Then officers for that department posted her address online. Days later, a woman who lived in the other half of her duplex was raped by an assailant …