2020 presidential election A New York Times-Siena College poll finds there is no clear Democratic Party frontrunner among voters in Iowa three months away from the 2020 Iowa Democratic caucuses. Senator Elizabeth Warren leads the poll with 22 percent, followed by Senator Bernie Sanders with 19 percent. South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg holds 18 percent in a rise to third place, while former Vice President Joe Biden, seen by many to be the frontrunner for his party's nomination, comes in fourth place with 17 percent.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) Tens of thousands of protestors, mostly consisting of supporters of the conservative Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazal, march in Islamabad demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan by Sunday. The army announces later in the evening that they will continue to support the elected government.
Democratic presidential nominee Former Texas representative Beto O'Rourke drops out of the presidential primaries.
Essex lorry deaths Earlier statements about the victims being of Chinese nationality are repudiated. Essex Police say all victims were Vietnamese.
Irish Irish mixed-martial artist Conor McGregor is convicted for assaulting a man in a Drimnagh pub in April, and is fined €1,000.
2019 Samoa assassination plot A man who had pled guilty to conspiracy to assassinate the Prime Minister of Samoa, and was due to be sentenced today, has changed his plea from guilty to not-guilty.
Crime in France A gunman shoots and injures six people at a bar in Marseille, France. The gunman is still at large.
Tottenham In Tottenham, London, a 1-year-old boy dies after falling from a ninth-floor council flat window with a faulty handle in a tower block. The boy's mother had urged the Haringey London Borough Council to fix the window for two months, a neighbour says. Critics say the death is the latest in a number of incidents suggesting problems with the ways in which public housing is managed in the country.
Grumman OV-1 Mohawk A Grumman OV-1 Mohawk crashes at an air show in Stuart, Florida, killing the pilot.
California Governor California Governor Gavin Newsom issues a statement calling on the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the state's largest utility company, to find a "consensual resolution" to its bankruptcy case, threatening a state takeover if an agreement cannot be reached. PG&E filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January in response to lawsuits pertaining to wildfires caused by PG&E's equipment.
Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States launches a national security review of TikTok-owner ByteDance's US$1 billion purchase of social media platform Musical.ly.
Google Google purchases activity tracker company Fitbit for US$2.1 billion, in an attempt to break into the digital health and smartwatch markets.