A serious ongoing economic crisis A Norwegian delegation arrives in Venezuela to restart dialogues to end the presidential crisis.
Tarek William Saab strips the parliamentary immunity of the opposition politicians Juan Pablo García, Tomás Guanipa and José Guerra.
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro creates a new government ministry, the Ministry of Tourism and Foreign Trade.
August 2019 Philadelphia shooting Six police officers are shot, sustaining non-life threatening injuries, by a gunman in Philadelphia; a seventh officer is injured in a related automobile accident nearby.
California California regulators announce a ban on chlorpyrifos, an organophosphate nerve agent used as a pesticide.
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, a U.S.-based organization that aims to keep educational materials broadly accessible, has asked the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department to halt a planned merger between two large textbook companies, McGraw-Hill and Cengage, a merger it claims will cause students "irreparable harm".
The country's economy The Federal Statistical Office of Germany discloses that Germany's gross domestic product shrank by 0.1% in the second quarter.
Syrian civil war A Syrian Air Force Sukhoi Su-22 jet is shot down by rebel forces near the town of Khan Shaykhun in the Idlib Governorate, Syria. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham jihadists say they have captured the pilot.