1. A year after his killing unleashed a national reckoning over racial injustice, George Floyd’s relatives met with President Joe Biden at the White House and with lawmakers on Capitol Hill to urge passage of police reform legislation.

2. The Senate and House of Representatives intelligence committees are conducting their own investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 virus and how the U.S. government responded to the crisis.

3. A divided Senate voted to confirm Kristen Clarke to lead the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. She is the first woman, and the first Black woman, to be confirmed as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.

4. Japanese newspaper publisher Asahi Shimbun, an official partner of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, called for the Summer Games to be canceled.

5. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser said his ex-boss failed in the COVID-19 crisis and ministers fell 'disastrously short' of the standards the public had a right to expect.

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