QUICK HITS

1 Manafort in hospital: Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, has been hospitalized since last week for a reported cardiac arrest. Manafort has been serving his sentence of seven-plus years for charges related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to ABC News. Manafort, 70, has been serving his sentence at a Pennsylvania federal jail.

2 Super PAC launched: A group of Donald Trump’s fiercest conservative critics, including George Conway, an attorney and husband of Trump’s chief counselor Kellyanne Conway, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump’s reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers.”

3 Death sentence: A Pakistani special court sentenced former military dictator and President Pervez Musharraf to death in absentia, ending a six-year case of high treason against him and delivering a historic verdict against the country’s powerful army.

4 Debate is on: The sixth Democratic presidential primary debate will take place as scheduled Thursday, after food workers at Loyola Marymount University announced a tentative contract agreement. The labor dispute had threatened to upend the year’s final televised debate, as the seven qualifying candidates vowed not to cross picket lines.

5 Launch postponed: European space officials Tuesday postponed the launch of a three-year mission to study planets in other solar systems shortly before it was due to blast off. The European Space Agency announced that the launch from Kourou, French Guiana, of the Characterising ExOPlanets Satellite mission would be delayed by at least a day.