President Trump has backed down from his more grandiose gun control proposals. Instead he is backing more modest reform to background checks, grants for training armed teachers, and administrative action to ban bump stocks.
By-elections results for the Hong Kong Legislative Council came in on Monday. Pro-democracy candidates took 2 of the 4 seats being contested. The by-elections were triggered by six pro-democracy candidates refusing to swear the oath of office proposed by Beijing. Turnout was down. The LegCo consists of 35 geographical constituencies and 35 functional constituencies.
In Japan, Prime Minister Abe is coming under increasing pressure over charges of cronyism. Abe has said he will resign if the allegations are proved. 80% of Japanese believe the scandal has been mishandled.
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