Live updates: Hunter Biden will not testify at gun trial as jury deliberations loom

• The criminal gun trial of Hunter Biden resumed with his lawyers revealing that the son of President Joe Biden will not testify in Wilmington, Delaware, federal court.
• Hunter Biden is charged with three crimes related to possessing a handgun while being a drug user.
• Former President Donald Trump, who will face President Biden in November's election, is set to be interviewed by a probation official for his criminal hush money case sentencing next month.

This is developing news and will be updated throughout the day.

The criminal gun trial of Hunter Biden resumed Monday morning with his lawyers revealing that the son of President Joe Biden will not testify in Wilmington, Delaware, federal court.

The decision sets the stage for closing arguments to begin after jurors return at 9 a.m. ET. The jury could begin deliberating Biden's fate by afternoon.

Biden is charged with three crimes related to possessing a handgun while being a drug user.

Biden's lawyer Abbe Lowell effectively said he would not take the witness stand during a morning hearing with Judge Maryellen Noreika on proposed jury instructions.

Lowell told Noreika to leave the phrase "did not testify" — referring to Biden — in those instructions.

Noreika denied a request by the defense to change the proposed jury instructions.

Biden's lawyers wanted Noreika to tell jurors that "Mr. Biden's response to the charges is that he never 'knowingly' either possessed a gun when he thought of himself as a user of drugs or addicted to them and he did not 'knowingly' lie on a form that asked him 'are you' a user or addict because he did not believe he was either a drug user or addict at the time."

But the judge said that was an "argument," and not "appropriate" for her to tell