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These are today’s top news stories.

1. Israel-Hamas War Updates

• More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its military offensive nearly a month ago, the Hamas-controlled health ministry in the enclave said Monday.

• US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that he made progress on the goals he set for an unannounced Middle East trip despite departing with few tangible results to show for a series of meetings with leaders about the war, including in Turkey, Jordan and Iraq.

• UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned Gaza is “becoming a graveyard for children” and the deteriorating conditions make the need for a humanitarian ceasefire more urgent, with at least 70% of Gaza Strip’s 2 million people now displaced and most living in poor conditions at UN shelters, a spokesperson for a UN relief agency said.

2. Biden, Netanyahu Discussed Potential ‘Tactical Pauses’

• U.S. President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the potential for “tactical pauses” in fighting in Gaza for humanitarian reasons and possible hostage releases in talks on Monday, according to a White House spokesperson.

• Despite more Americans exiting Gaza on Monday and more aid entering the territory, the U.S. and Israeli governments will continue to be in touch on potential temporary pauses and that Biden and Netanyahu agreed to continue talks in the coming days.

• “You can expect that we’re going to continue to advocate for temporary and localized pauses in the fighting,” White House spokesperson John Kirby said. “We consider ourselves at the beginning of this conversation, not at the end of it.”

3. Trump Has Combative Testimony in Civil Fraud Trial

• Former President Donald Trump took the witness stand in his civil fraud trial in New York on Monday, complaining of unfair treatment and prompting the judge to threaten to cut his testimony short.

• Trump’s testimony strayed at times, prompting Judge Arthur Engoron to ask Trump’s lawyer, “Can you control your client? This is not a political rally. This is a courtroom.”

• Over roughly four hours on the witness stand, Trump often avoided direct answers, instead bragging about his properties and his wealth and accusing New York Attorney General Letitia James, an elected Democrat who is spearheading the $250 million case against Trump, of targeting him to further her political career and accused Engoron of lowballing the value of his properties.

4. Man Killed in Altercation at Competing Rallies in California

• Authorities in Ventura County, California, are investigating the death of a Jewish man who was injured during a confrontation at dueling pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian rallies and who died Monday, the sheriff’s department said.

• Witnesses said Paul Kessler, 69, “was in a physical altercation with counter-protestor(s). During the altercation, Kessler fell backwards and struck his head on the ground,” the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.

• “The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the cause of death to be blunt force head injury and the manner of death homicide,” the sheriff’s department said in a statement.

5. Second Police Officer Acquitted in Elijah McClain Death

• A second Colorado police officer has been acquitted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain, a young, unarmed Black man whose case attracted national attention and became central to debates about police brutality and race.

• A jury on Monday found Nathan Woodyard, who was the first officer to stop McClain as he walked home from a convenience store in an Aurora, Colo., neighborhood, not guilty of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, and follows a jury’s conviction of one officer but acquittal of another last month for the same incident.

• McClain, age 23, was approached by Woodyard placed in a neck restraint, briefly rendering him unconscious, after which paramedics injected McClain with ketamine, a powerful sedative, causing him to die in the hospital several days later.