2018 Mexican general election Voters in Mexico elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador as their new President in a landslide victory. Additionally, 128 senators and 500 deputies were also chosen.
2018 German government crisis Interior minister Horst Seehofer offers his resignation citing a conflict with Angela Merkel over her refugee policy.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces resistance by the Bavarian CSU over the result of the EU asylum policy summit last week.
Terrorism in the United States FBI agents arrest a Cleveland man they say told an undercover agent he was planning to bomb a July 4 th celebration.
Crime in Idaho A man stabs multiple people celebrating a three-year-old's birthday party at an apartment complex housing refugees in Boise, Idaho. Nine people are injured, including the birthday girl and five other children; the birthday girl dies the next day.
Cannabis in the United States Vermont legalizes recreational marijuana, becoming the ninth U.S. state to do so.
List of helicopter prison escapes Three heavily armed gunmen who hijacked a helicopter help Rédoine Faïd, one of France's most notorious gangsters, escape from a prison in Réau, Île-de-France. Police later discovered the abandoned helicopter in Gonesse. Faïd previously escaped prison in 2013 and was briefly France's most wanted criminal.
North Korea–United States relations U.S. President Donald Trump's National Security Advisor John R. Bolton states that the United States has a plan to dismantle the nuclear weapons program of North Korea in a year.
Uttarakhand A bus skids off a mountain road into a 700 ft ravine in Uttarakhand, India, killing at least 48 people.