| Legal battlefield | Trump is seizing on a string of losses at the Supreme Court to galvanize his base through calls to remake the judiciary with more conservative judges. As Josh Wingrove and Jennifer Jacobs report, he's reviving an issue that fueled his first presidential run. -
House Democrats again fell short in a high-profile attempt to dig into what they say is Trump's possible misconduct — this time with a failed strategy to access his financial records before the Nov. 3 election. -
Trump heads today to coronavirus-stricken Florida for a political fundraiser and an anti-drug-trafficking event. Diplomatic stumbles | Trump's diplomatic forays to resolve disputes from Africa to the Balkans haven't gone well. Following the president's failed bids to settle a long-running dispute over a Nile dam and bring Serbia and Kosovo to the negotiating table to heal one of Europe's most intractable standoffs, diplomats from the regions are moving to wrestle back control. Tensions soar | China has vowed to retaliate after the U.S. sanctioned a top member of the Communist Party and three other officials for human rights abuses in the far western region of Xinjiang. The Trump administration's actions escalate tensions between the world's two biggest economies over the origin of the pandemic, Beijing's moves to quell dissent in Hong Kong and a debate over the use of Chinese technology by the U.S. and allies. Euro shock | The smallest nations that use the European Union's common currency, the euro, staged an uprising to put one of their own in charge of finance ministers' meetings. Ireland's Paschal Donohoe won a secret ballot of 19 colleagues to become president of the Eurogroup, defeating the Spanish favorite, Nadia Calvino, who was backed by the EU's four biggest economies. Naval drills | India plans to invite Australia to join its annual naval exercise that already includes Japan and the U.S., in a move that could risk China's ire. As Sudhi Ranjan Sen and Archana Chaudhary explain, the decision to involve Australia marks the first time all members of the grouping known as the Quad will be engaged at a military level, and comes amid a recent spike in border tensions between Beijing and New Delhi.  A fighter plane is catapulted from the U.S. super-carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Bay of Bengal in 2007. Photographer: Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP What to Watch - The top American commander in the Middle East says he sees Iran's decision-making abilities in "disarray" after a U.S. drone strike killed a senior Iranian officer in January, Tony Capaccio reports.
- Polish President Andrzej Duda is vying for a second term in a runoff vote Sunday that will decide whether the EU's biggest eastern member slides deeper into nationalism or serves as a warning for populists across the Atlantic and beyond.
- Singaporeans are voting today as Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's party seeks to extend its 55-year rule amid the city-state's worst-ever recession.
Pop quiz, readers (no cheating!). Which country's prime minister died this week? Send your answers to balancepower@bloomberg.net. And finally | Its hospitals are already overwhelmed with virus cases, and Pakistan now faces a shortage of oxygen cylinders. Prime Minister Imran Khan is under pressure after infections soared to the second-highest in Asia and close to a third of the parliament, including senior ministers, contracted Covid-19. As Faseeh Mangi explains, the dual impact of the epidemic and the country's first economic contraction in six decades is likely to hit Khan's already waning popularity.  Motorcyclists pass a banner paying tribute to health and medical workers in Islamabad on July 8. Photographer: Aamir Qureshi/AFP | 
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