Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination U.S. President Donald Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Kentucky gubernatorial election, 2019 Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear announces that he will run for Kentucky Governor in 2019.
Politics of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson resigns as the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs amid disagreements with Prime Minister Theresa May over Brexit negotiations. Johnson is the second member of May's cabinet to resign in two days.
2017–18 Spanish constitutional crisis Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Quim Torra, meet officially in Moncloa. It is the first time since the beginning of the crisis that a Spanish Prime Minister and a Catalan President meet.
Unrest in early 2018 Iranian women post videos of themselves dancing to protest the arrest of Instagram blogger Maedeh Hojabri.
Weinstein effect Eugene Gu, a doctor famous for successfully suing President Donald Trump for blocking him on Twitter, has been accused of sexual assault by a woman who says she’s his ex.
Inn Din massacre § Arrest of Reuters journalists A court in Myanmar charges two Reuters journalists with obtaining secret state documents in violation of the colonial-era "Official Secrets Act", taking the landmark press freedom case to trial after a period of preliminary hearings that lasted six months. The two journalists were investigating mass graves in the village of Inn Din in northern Rakhine State prior to their arrest and imprisonment on 12 December 2017.
U.S. Treasury Department The U.S. Treasury Department announces sanctions for a Malaysia-based sales agent for Mahan Air in connection with Iran's alleged support for international terrorism.
Efforts to make peace Leaders from Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declare an end to their countries' 20-year border conflict.
About 50 students are poisoned by inhaling a toxic gas, due to an explosion near their school of the locality of Chosica, in Lima, Peru. Spokespeople from local municipality say that this poisoning is due to the leakage of gas from a chlorine cylinder, although the place where the explosion began and the origin of the product has yet to be determined.
Tham Luang cave rescue Divers in Thailand rescue four more boys from the cave Tham Luang Nang Non bringing the total to eight rescued.
Floods The death toll from heavy rains in Japan rises to 126, with over 86 people still reported missing.