Closing arguments in Chauvin’s trial begin

UPDATE | Prosecutor presents arguments in court: 'This is not trial of George Floyd'

The trial of Chauvin has entered its concluding stages, with the jury's deliberation and verdict expected as early as this week.

Facebook promised in the post it will allow people to discuss, critique and criticise the trial and the attorneys involved but will remove pages, groups, Instagram accounts, and events that contain calls to take up arms or violate community policies on violence and hate speech.

The White House is standing down the two emergency teams it set up to direct the US government's response to the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange hacking incidents.

The Biden administration is doing so “due to the vastly increased patching and reduction in victims”. Further responses will be handled through standard incident management procedures.

UPDATE: The defence for former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin said that the prosecution failed to meet the "beyond a reasonable doubt" criteria in its effort to prove his guilt in the death of George Floyd in police custody.

UPDATE: Washington, DC authorities have requested assistance from National Guard ahead of the conclusion of the court trial of Derek Chauvin in Minnesota, national capital Mayor Muriel Bowser told reporters on Monday.

🚸 The Biden administration has consistently avoided calling the situation at the border a "crisis", and this time the White House backtracked on language used by US President Joe Biden on 17 April as he spoke about a "crisis" of migrants flooding the US southern border with Mexico.

The White House official hurried to explain that POTUS was not referring to a humanitarian situation in crowded detention centres when he spoke of a "crisis", but rather was referring to the state of affairs in the Central American countries which has contributed to the high rate of migrants headed to the US.

The "Don't say it!" game continues...

UPDATE: The prosecution told jurors that the case is not against all law enforcement, calling policing a "noble" profession.

MORE | Pentagon is reviewing National Guard request from Washington mayor.

UPDATE | Jury retires to begin deliberations in Derek Chauvin's trial.

Manhunt ends as authorities arrest ex-Sheriff's Deputy Stephen Broderick suspected of killing three.

Authorities were reportedly tipped off by an anonymous individual who spotted Broderick based on a police denoscription.

The Biden administration will reportedly remove terms including “alien”, “illegal alien” and “assimilation” from immigration law.

Advocates for immigrants point out that the terms are archaic and “dehumanizing”; as “alien” tends to conjure images of fictional creatures in the human imagination, rather than people, and “should be scrapped in favor of a more civil tone”.

But can new names fix old problems?

📱 Apple signals the return of the Parler app with updated content moderation features introduced since the social media platform was pulled in the wake of the deadly 6 January Capitol riot.

"Huge win for free speech”, Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colorado) commented on the letter from Apple saying that the company "anticipates that the updated Parler app will become available immediately upon Parler releasing it".

#BREAKING | Former US Vice President Walter Mondale died on Monday at the age of 93, according to a statement from his family.

❗️Jimmy Carter expresses condolences over former VP Walter Mondale death.

MORE | Demonstrators marching in Minneapolis as Chauvin trial nears end - reports.

UPDATE | Jury in Chauvin's trial retires for the night, deliberations set to resume on Tuesday.

🏆 The only way is the MAGA way?

In the first major TV interview since leaving the White House, Trump says the GOP should follow his MAGA agenda in 2022 'if they want to win' and be able to retake Congress in 2022 and beyond.

⚖️ James O’Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, filed a defamation lawsuit against Twitter on Monday, denying platform accusations that he used false pages, considered in Twitter rules as a way to “artificially amplify or disrupt conversations.”

According to the lawsuit, “Twitter made such claims with knowledge of their falsity in order to distract and detract from Project Veritas’s CNN release of the same day.”

US Democratic Representative Maxine Waters requested a police escort during her visit to Minnesota last weekend, when she urged protesters to "get more confrontational” in the wake of the fatal police shooting of a young black man, Daunte Wright, Fox News reported.

Better safe than sorry?

🗣 "Maxine Waters believes there is value in violence": House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., believes that recent incendiary remarks made by Maxine Waters call for immediate congressional censure