Prosecutor Jerry Blackwell said in court that officer Derek Chauvin crushed George Floyd “until the very life was squeezed out of him.” During opening statements in Chauvin’s trial on murder and manslaughter charges on Monday, Blackwell played a famous video taken by a bystander showing the officer pinning Floyd to the pavement outside a Minneapolis store last May.

The number of people killed at anti-military demonstrations across the country on Saturday reached 114, the news site Myanmar Now reported. A holiday military parade in the capital city sparked violent protests. A warning on state TV on Friday cautioned young people they could be shot in the head or back if they participated. The military uses live ammunition against protesters, who have fought back with rocks, Molotov cocktails, and bows and arrows.

A Biden administration official headed to Mexico on Monday to work with officials there on a plan to manage the growing migration surge. White House envoys also planned to visit Guatemala to seek to address the causes that lead people there to trek through Mexico to the U.S. southern border. Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, released photos of a Border Patrol holding facility where more than 1,000 migrants, many of them unaccompanied minors, are living in overcrowded tents and sleeping under foil blankets on floor mats in small groups separated by plastic sheeting.

Crabapple First Baptist Church in Milton, Ga., said it would discontinue 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long’s membership following his arrest in connection with fatal shootings at massage parlors. “These unthinkable and egregious murders directly contradict his own confession of faith in Jesus and the gospel,” the church said in a statement. Eight people died in the shootings on Tuesday, six of whom were women of Asian descent.

Investigators still do not know exactly what killed Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, but they have arrested two rioters on allegations of assaulting him with bear spray. Prosecutors say they have video of Julian Khater of Pennsylvania spraying a chemical substance provided by George Tanios at Sicknick and other guards on Jan. 6. The two men joined a mob of insurgents who overran the Capitol as Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

A growing chorus from within his own party says Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo—a member of one of New York’s best-known political dynasties—should step down. By Friday afternoon, New York’s U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer, the Senate majority leader, had joined 12 of 19 U.S. House Democrats from the state, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, in saying the sexual misconduct claims against Cuomo warranted his resignation.

Taxpayers could receive $1,400 deposits from the U.S. government as soon as this weekend, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday. In a ceremony in the Oval Office, President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, which passed in Congress without a single Republican vote.