• Despite ringing declarations of support for the protesters from leading Democrats and Republicans, Mr. Trump has shown little sympathy for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement. That has left him politically isolated from both parties in Congress, the State Department, European allies and his most hawkish advisers at the White House.
• Elizabeth Warren inspires intense enthusiasm among Democratic voters. But she also inspires concerns. For all of Ms. Warren’s strengths, she faces persistent questions about whether she could beat Mr. Trump.
• The United States is participating in secret talks between the United Arab Emirates and Israel to confront threats posed by Iran, a shared adversary among the three countries.
• The 2020 field has started to shrink. John Hickenlooper, the former Colorado governor, announced that he was ending his struggling presidential campaign.
• Beto O’Rourke, who has run a pretty traditional campaign thus far (to little success) is switching things up. He plans to abandon his focus on early-voting states, instead embracing the freewheeling style that embodied his Senate run and “taking the fight to Donald Trump.”