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The EPA will hold a hearing on a chemical in water thats likely to cause cancer, the Kim Potter trial moves forward and more news to start your Thursday.

Prosecutors are expected to wrap up their case Thursday against the Minnesota police officer charged in Daunte Wright’s death.

The family of George Floyd had mixed feelings about Derek Chauvin's guilty plea in federal court Wednesday.

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of violating George Floyd's civil rights.

At former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter’s manslaughter trial for fatally shooting Daunte Wright, a Black motorist, the core of her defense is clear: She says she meant to use her Taser but grabbed her handgun instead

Kim Potter's use of deadly force against Daunte Wright was not appropriate, a use-of-force expert testified Wednesday at the former suburban Minneapolis police officer's manslaughter trial, undercutting a defense argument that she would have been justified in shooting Wright even if she didn't mean to.

Prosecutors are expected to wrap up their case Thursday against the Minnesota police officer charged in Daunte Wright’s death.

Prosecutors are expected to wrap up their case Thursday against the Minnesota police officer charged in Daunte Wright’s death.

Kimberly Potter, who was a police officer in the city of Brooklyn Center just north of Minneapolis, has pleaded not guilty to first- and second-degree manslaughter charges. Her lawyers have said Potter, 49, mistakenly used her handgun instead of her stun gun in the death of Wright, a 20-year-old shot during a traffic stop.

Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of violating George Floyds civil rights, admitting for the first time that he kept his knee on Floyds neck — even after he became unresponsive — resulting in the Black mans death.