Video from near the scene of the shooting

UPDATE | Shooting situation remains active, but there is no threat to general public, Austin police say

🔫 Texas House passes Constitutional Carry bill

The seven-hour debate ended with the passage of a bill eliminating training and background check requirements for carrying a gun. Now the bill goes to the Texas State Senate.

The "Constitutional Carry" bill, if finally passed, would make it easier for all state citizens over the age of 21 to have access to firearms.

A return to the good old days?

MORE | Austin police share photo of shooting suspect who is still at large

UPDATE | Suspected gunman in Austin shooting was previously charged with child sexual assault, reports say

Former US president Donald Trump has laid into his successor Joe Biden's delay in withdrawing troops from Afghanistan

"First, we can and should get out earlier. Nineteen years is enough, in fact, far too much and way too long," Trump said.

"I made early withdraw possible by already pulling much of our billions of dollars of equipment out and, more importantly, reducing our military presence to less than 2,000 troops from the 16,000 level that was there," he stressed

😬 Leftists have become angry with Biden for not keeping his promises.

Having pledged a couple of months ago to increase the admission of refugees to 125,000 a year, the president decided to change the number to 62,500.

In addition, the National Center for Immigrant Justice indicated that under Biden the number of deportations actually increased, which was met with a negative response from many Democrats.

But so what? Men often make big promises!

👶 China is going to seriously tackle the issue of demography in order to .. compete with the United States.

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) argues that the country should “fully liberalize and encourage childbearing” to increase its workforce, which in turn will help Beijing compete economically with other countries, including the US and India

A 7-year-old girl was shot dead at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Chicago's Homan Square neighborhood, The Chicago Sun-Times daily newspaper reports citing local law enforcement

At least five people were reportedly injured in a shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana

GOP member Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced plans to introduce a resolution to expel Democratic Representative Maxine Waters from Congress "for her continual incitement of violence".

She accused Waters of inciting "Black Lives Matter domestic terrorists to fire gunshots at National Guardsmen in Minnesota" after the Democratic congresswoman told protesters in Brooklyn Center "to get more confrontational" with the authorities

🗣 Greene: "As a sitting United States Congresswoman, Rep. Maxine Waters threatened a jury demanding a guilty verdict and threatened violence if Chauvin is found not guilty. This is also an abuse of power. Rep. Maxine Waters must be expelled from Congress"

BREAKING: Greece gives greenlight to travellers from EU, US, UK, Israel, Serbia, and UAE without quarantine

❗️Athens announced on Monday that travellers from multiple countries who have a negative PCR test or have been vaccinated against the coronavirus can enter Greece without quarantining.

The list includes the European Union, the United States, United Kingdom, Serbia, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.

Their nationals will be allowed to travel to Greece via the airports of Athens, Thessaloniki, Heraklion, Chania, Rhodes, Kos, Mykonos, Santorini, and Corfu, as well as two border crossings.

Catch up on our latest updates:

▪️ Police have identified a former sheriff's detective as a suspect behind Sunday’s shooting in Austin, where at least three people were killed; a manhunt is underway

▪️ NASA engineers have successfully launched the Ingenuity helicopter from Mars' surface

▪️ America’s JPMorgan Chase to finance the newly announced football Super League, which will include 12 major clubs from England, Spain, and Italy

▪️ Vandals left a pig's head at the former house of Barry Brodd, a witness in the George Floyd murder trial

▪️ At least two male passengers died in an autopiloted Tesla crash in Spring, Texas, near the city of Houston on Saturday night

▪️ Minneapolis and other US cities are bracing for potential civil unrest as Derek Chauvin's trial enters its final phase

❗️Russian MiG-31 fighter intercepts American and Norwegian aircraft over Barents Sea

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.