Ex-cop Derek Chauvin is to appear in court on Wednesday for a change of plea hearing in the federal civil rights case filed against him over his killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd.

Chauvin, who was sentenced to 22 1/2 years in prison after being found guilty of murdering Floyd in May 2020, initially pleaded not guilty this fall to the indictment.

⚡️Kentucky Governor confirms tornado death toll has risen to 74, with 109 people still unaccounted

US President Joe Biden agreed that there is no absolute certainty that the deadly tornado swarm that struck several US states was caused by climate change, but also noted that the size of the disaster is unusual.

🗣"We can't say with absolute certainty that it was because of climate change... there is a lot of things that we don't know for certain, I don't want to say anything that's not precisely true," Biden said when asked if the tornado was caused by climate change. "What is certain is it is one of the worst tornado disasters that we've had in the country."

Biden added, however, that it is noted with certainty how the tornadoes formed, how many places they touched down and the length of their paths.

💉 Supreme Court refuses to block COVID-19 vaccination requirement for NY health care workers who seek religious exemption.

👀Amazon, Google, Walmart and other corporate behemoths have been spying on their staff to prevent them from unionising,

Over the past years surveillance of employees has drastically increased, as 60% of big companies use monitoring tools, twice as many as before COVID. The percentage of workers who belong to a union in 2020 was 10.8% in the United States and there is a probability of additional unionization between 0.15% and 2%.

Could this be a US resurgence of the worker's union?

WATCH | Peter Doocy is still wondering if the Biden administration is still doing nothing about the border crisis

DOOCY: “Is Vice President Harris still in charge of addressing the root causes of migration from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala?”

PSKAI: "She is..."

DOOCY “Well, then why is it that she has not spoken to the President of Guatemala since June?”

Watch Psaki's answers to that inquiry.

⚡️Jan. 6 Panel votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt over refusal to comply with subpoena

Jan. 6 Panel revelations from Meadows vote:

🔸Text messages showed several Fox News hosts pushing for Trump to make a statement urging rioters against storming US Capitol

🔸Donald Trump Jr. texted Meadows: ‘He's got to condemn this s**t ASAP. The Capitol Police tweet is not enough’

🔸Unidentified lawmaker messaged Meadows that Jan. 6 ‘was a terrible day’ and that ‘we tried everything we could in our objection to the 6 states’

🎞 Warner on Monday premiered a trailer for the new Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, giving us our first look at Mads Mikkelsen as Gellert Grindelwald, replacing Johnny Depp, who was fired in November of 2020 after losing a lawsuit related to his ex-wife.

Depp's fans were upset by the new trailer, and many vowed to boycott this movie with the hashtag #BoycottWarner, #JohnnyDeppIsMyGrindelwald and #JusticeForJohnnyDepp

🚨 Will fans make enough of an impact for Warner to reinstate Depp?

Been uh-fleck? 😅

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association unveiled the Golden Globe nominations at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California, on Monday. Reporters in attendance and fans watching the YouTube livestream got a surprise when Snoop Dogg emerged to announce half of the nominees.

Snoop Dogg stepped up to the podium and delivered unintentional comedy as he struggled to pronounce a few names of the nominees. The presenter lightened the mood around the 2022 Golden Globe Awards, which are facing a boycott over a lack of commitment to diversity.

🥴 Next time don't give him "Gin N Juice" before the ceremony!

⚡️ President Biden approves Tennessee, Illinois disaster declaration after deadly tornadoes

🇺🇸🇨🇳The United States is committed to preventing its competition with China from escalating into a potential conflict that could have catastrophic consequences for all parties, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said

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👨‍👦Elon Musk, Time’s Person of the Year for 2021, attended the magazine’s launch event with his son X Æ A-ii.

📹: The city of Mayfield is slowly returning to normal after a series of devastating tornadoes.

People are picking through the rubble, learning to live on, and rebuilding their houses from scraps.

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🧑‍⚖️ CNN producer John Griffin has been charged with three counts of sexual crimes against minors, Fox News reports, citing an unsealed indictment.

He now faces at least 10 years in prison, which might jump to a life sentence.

📌 The court documents show that Griffin contacted the mothers of minors aged between 7 and 14 years old.

📌 He paid $3,000 to a mother of a 9-year-old in 2020 so that she would travel from Nevada to his house in Ludlow, Vermont, the indictment said. There Griffin allegedly convinced the mother to direct the daughter to "engage in unlawful sexual activity".

📌 The producer allegedly convinced some mothers to show up with their children for a session in person that would include "spanking" and "c*ck worship".

📌 Griffin also allegedly messaged parents that at "the core of any" female there is a "wanton whore".

The 44-year-old was taken into custody; the network has suspended him.

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