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September 2018[edit]
   | 9 |  California becomes first state to require women on the corporate boards of publicly traded companies. |
| 17 |   Brexit is costing the UK half a billion pounds per week. |
| 20 | After Blasey Ford's testimony, Trump's pick for SCOTUS, Brett Kavenaugh, launches into a toddler-esque rant, blaming Democrats and (bizarrely) the Clintons for the accusations against him. Surprising nobody it turned out he lied through his teeth, while under oath. In a surprising move, his nomination hearing is held back, pending an FBI investigation into the allegations. |
| 23 | The Trump administration projects global temperatures being 7 degrees Fahrenheit higher than pre-industrial levels by 2100. |
| -2 | Mississippi Department of Public Safety refuses to buy Nike over Kaepernick row. A county sheriff went a step further by comparing Kaepernick with bin Laden. |
| 19 |  The Indian Supreme Court has struck down a law making adultery illegal for men. |
| 25 |  A former Google employee warns that his old company is developing powerful censorship and mass surveillance tools for Red China. |
| 22 | The Conservative Party's attempt to mimic Momentum's social media strength has backfired, after their 40-member Twitter army turned on Theresa May over her Chequers deal. |
| 15 |   Billionaire Russian-Israeli oligarch and owner of Chelsea FC Roman Abramovich, has been refused a residency permit by the Swiss authorities due to being a danger to public security and linked to possible money laundering. |
| 7 |  After a complaint by the Venstre Party, a Danish policewoman is undergoing investigation after being photographed hugging a Niqabi. |
| 8 | News Corp is to sell its remaining 39% stake in BSkyB to Comcast after three decades. |
| 14 | Investigative website Bellingcat has revealed that one of Russian spys in the Skripal poisoning, "Ruslan Boshirov” is actually GRU Colonel Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga, a veteran of the Second Chechen and Donbass Wars. |
| 10 |  A Spanish actor has been detained for questioning regarding a blasphemous social media post after ignoring previous summons from the courts. |
| 14 |  The entire police force of the city of Acapulco has been disarmed due to fears it has been infiltrated by gangs. |
| 17 |  British and Greek researchers found that the presence of an ancient retrovirus in the "pleasure gene" may increase the likelihood of addictive behavior. |
| 24 | President Donald Trump gets unexpected laugh at United Nations |
| 14 |  The Swedish PM has been voted out by Parliament. |
| 20 |  A four-year investigation reveals the scale of sexual abuse in the German Catholic Church. |
| 13 |  A new film Kler (Clergy) which is headlining the Gdynia Film Festival, which talks about three mischievous priests, has been criticized by the deputy culture minister as being “harmful and untrue”. |
| 12 | Theresa May planning snap election for November according to reports from senior advisers. |
| 18 | Another woman comes forward with sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh. |
| 16 |  The Vatican and China have reached a deal on a decades-long dispute over the appointment of bishops in China. |
| 6 | Astronomers just found a planet where Star Trek's Vulcans were predicted to exist |
| 14 | An 85 mile coral reef has been discovered off the East Coast. |
| 10 |  25 were killed in an attack on an Iranian military parade. |
| 16 | Texas Republicans face criticism after releasing an ad asking Hindu voters if they would rather vote for a donkey or an elephant |
| 6 | Accused of plagiarism, the Spanish prime minister recognizes 'error' in book |
| 16 | Amy Chua the Tiger Mother reportedly groomed female clerks for judge Brett Kavanaugh. The Dean of Yale Law School has called for anyone affected to let themselves be heard. |
| 21 |  Fossilized Edicaran life form Dickinsonia is proven the oldest known animal to date. |
| 11 |  Pakistani ex-PM Nawaz Sharif's jail sentence has been suspended. |
| 13 |  North Korea agrees to dismantle one of its main missile testing and launch sites "in the presence of experts from relevant nations". |
| 12 | The State Department has lowered the cap on refugees next year to 30,000. |
| 13 | Germany ousts the head of its domestic intelligence agency over his comments on far-right violence in Chemnitz. |
| 10 | Congress passed a package of 70 bills designed to curb the opioid epidemic. |
| 9 |   A Russian plane has been destroyed by a Syrian antiair response to an Israeli airstrike, creating further diplomatic strains between Moscow and Tel Aviv. |
| 24 | Donald Trump Jr. has come out as a Hurricane Florence denier, using footage of Hurricane Ike to prove that CNN is exaggerating destruction. |
| 10 |  In another twist of irony, a leaked cable from Wikileaks reports that back in 2010, Julian Assange was planning to flee the UK for Russia. Wikileaks denies the cable saying it is untrue. |
| 30 | In a twist of irony, Katie Hopkins, who berated people for being poor on the grounds they were bad at personal finance, has applied for an IVA , a form of creditor protection to prevent people from going bankrupt, due to her recent loss in a libel trial against activist Jack Monroe. |
| 12 |  Russia and Turkey agree to establish a buffer zone to prevent an all-out assault on Syria's last rebel stronghold. |
| 26 | Analysis of gravitational waves data casts doubt on the existence of higher spatial dimensions. |
| 13 | The Swiss government confirms reports that two suspected Russian spies allegedly tried to hack a lab investigating the Skripal poisoning. |
| 19 | The LDS Church excommunicates a bishop who campaigned for the abolition of sometimes sexually explicit one-on-one interviews between clergy and underage members. |
| 16 | The UK Labour Party wants to ban early foetus gender tests amid fears it may lead to abortions of girls. |
| 16 | A border patrol agent has been arrested under suspicion of being a serial killer recently targeting women in Texas. |
| 17 | The lawsuit over Alex Jones' use of Pepe the Frog has been scheduled for July 16, 2019. |
| 16 | Not on Twitter? Don't worry, FEMA is testing a system that will let Trump send "Presidential Alerts" directly to your cell phone. |
| 15 | New book reveals extent of British evangelical Christian politician Tim Farron's problems with homosexuality and abortion. |
| 13 | Trump reportedly wants to impose another $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports. |
| 10 |  Pussy Riot activist Pyotr Verzilov is taken to a hospital in serious condition, possibly due to poisoning. |
| 23 | Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort will plead guilty to the multiple criminal charges raised against him and will cooperate with the investigation of interference in the 2016 Presidential election. |
| 4 | The number of migrant children in detention centers has risen to the highest level ever recorded. |
| 18 |   France admits to having carried out systematic torture during the Algerian War of Independence. |
| 2 | In a controversial decision, California's Bay Area Rapid Transit will allow ads by the antisemitic hate-group, the Institute for Historical Review. |
| 30 |  President Trump claims the Democrats inflated the death toll of Hurricane Maria to make him look bad. |
| 11 | New York City will start allowing people to change their birth certificates to a third gender. |
| 10 |  Myanma ruler Suu Kyi admits the treatment of the Rohingya "could've been handled better", but defends the sentencing of two journalists investigating it. |
| 13 |  The Conservative Party has been accused of apologism for antisemitism by a Jewish group, alleging they voted against the EU resolution to boycott Hungary in order to get support for Brexit. |
| 13 |  Georgia may legalise the production of cannabis for export if a new bill is passed. |
| 18 | A row echoing Kaepernick's protest, after in Australia a 9-year-old girl who refuses at school to stand for the national anthem, saying it doesn’t respect the country’s Indigenous population. |
| 17 | As Hurricane Florence bears down on the Carolinas, it's revealed that Trump moved $10 million from FEMA to fund ICE's deportation crackdown. |
| 5 | One school in the state of Georgia wants to reintroduce corporal punishment. |
| 11 | European Parliament votes to sanction Hungary for undermining democratic values. |
| 5 |    President Trump's solution to the Israel-Palestine dispute has been revealed: pressure neighbouring countries to make refugees their citizens. Abbas however refuses to work with Netanyahu on such a plan, while Jordan is against naturalising refugees entirely. |
| 8 | European Parliament has voted in favor of controversial copyright reforms. |
| 21 | Rape apologist Roosh V has had nine of his books removed by Amazon and has been banned from livestreaming on YouTube for three months. |
| 13 | Russia is holding its largest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union. |
| 11 |  A few wind farm protesters are becoming so extreme with threats, intimidation and vandalism
that the Dutch counter-terrorism unit, NCTV described them as being ‘radicalised’. |
| 23 | Trump makes a statement on the economy so wrong that Fox News corrected it. |
| 18 | California has passed legislation to make all retail electricity be carbon-free by 2045. |
| 15 |  Saudi Arabia has made posting satire attacking religion online an offense punishable by five years in prison. |
| 9 |   The US will threaten sanctions against International Criminal Court judges if they investigate allegations of war crimes committed by the US in Afghanistan. |
| 10 | China reportedly detained a man for terrorist charges after he set his watch 2 hours behind Beijing time. |
| 5 | U.S. Charges North Korean Spy Over WannaCry and Sony Pictures Hack |
| 3 | CBS CEO Leslie Moonves has stepped down amidst sexual misconduct allegations. |
| 5 |  A few identitarian activists and Farage loyalists in Ireland are trying to create a localised version of UKIP, with the “Irexit Freedom Party”. This is despite support for the EU being around 90% in Ireland. |
| 4 | Nearly 300 protesters against pension reform in Russia have been detained. |
| 6 | The PM of the Georgian breakaway region Abkhazia died in a car accident. |
| 9 | Bay Area care centers charged with human trafficking and theft |
| 10 |  The Indonesian province of Aceh has banned men and women who aren't related or married from dining together. |
| 8 |  Egypt sentences 75 to death over a pro-Morsi sit-in in 2013. |
| 8 |   Italy and Austria spar over rumors that Austria is making a law that will give German and Ladin speakers in South Tyrol Austrian citizenship. |
| 13 | After the Supreme Court in Dublin has rejected all legal challenges to the 36th amendment vote, it is expected to be signed-off by President Higgins next week, making abortion up to twelve weeks legal in Ireland from the beginning of next year. |
| 6 |  Iraqi protesters set fire to the Iranian consulate. |
| 22 | The BBC admits its coverage of climate change is poor with too much time given to denialists and failure to accept climate change is definitely happening. |
| 12 | Adding to further insult to Jason Kessler, organiser of the Unite the Right rallies, the man that assaulted him in Charlottesville received a $1 fine after appeal. |
| 12 | President Trump is considering taking legal action to out the name of the New York Times' source, insisting it is a matter of "national security". |
| 13 |  The Brazilian presidential frontrunner was stabbed. |
| 9 |  Hokkaido Japan hit by deadly 6.7 earthquake and mudslides, where at least nine people are killed and approximately 40 are missing. |
| 44 | Twitter has permanently banned Alex Jones and Infowars. |
| 9 | Two Russian nationals have been charged with carrying out the nerve agent attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal. |
| 47 | In a historic ruling, the Indian Supreme Court strikes down the country's British-era sodomy law and legalizes homosexuality.
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| 17 | In an anonymous op-ed by a senior administration official in the New York Times, there's been suggestions of invoking the twenty fifth amendment (incapacity amendment) over President Trump. |
| 6 | Outrage as posters claiming Israel is a racist endeavour spring up at four London bus stops. |
| -2 | London's Metropolitan Police investigate validity of the charges of anti-semitism against the Labour party. |
| 18 | French president Macron's approval rating has sunk to 31%. |
| 23 | According to the Washington Post, Trump would like protesting, a major principle of free speech, to be made illegal. |
| 9 | Brazil museum fire: Funding cuts blamed as icon is gutted |
| 2 | Jon Kyl has been chosen to serve the rest of John McCain's term. |
| 30 | Watergate journalist Bob Woodward reveals in his new book that staffers are so worried about the president Trump, that they snatch and hide papers before he has a chance to sign them. |
| 10 | Putin's cult of personality reaches to a new high, with a new entire show dedicated to documenting his activities and praising him on a major TV channel. |
| 6 | The founder of prominent Afghan militant group the Haqqani Network has died. |
| 15 |  Controversy over religious broadcasting in Belgium after a lay reader during a televised church service quotes Ephesians 5:22-33: "Women, be submissive to your husband as the husband to the Lord." As a result, the liberal/centrist party Open VLD calls for an end to religious programming on state TV. |
| 11 | Trump attacks Sessions because his DOJ indicted two GOP congressmen. |
| 4 |  Argentina launches fresh austerity measures to stem peso crisis |
| 14 | Myanmar has sentenced two journalists who were investigating the Rohingya genocide to seven years in prison. |
| 3 |  Extensive and growing concern about the democratic decline and corruption in the Pacific island-state of Nauru, and on how Australia is supporting it. |
| 2 | Reports by the think-tank the Grattan Institute, says as much as AU$62.8 million of last year’s donations to Australian parties are from unknown sources [dark money]. |
| 15 | The US will cut $300 million in aid to Pakistan due to perceived failure to tackle militant groups. |
| 11 | The US accuses China of an aggressive spy campaign on LinkedIn. |
| 5 | A federal judge refuses to order that DACA be shut down despite saying it is most likely illegal. |
| 7 | The Saudi government has reportedly tendered for a scheme to dig a huge canal or moat round Qatar, cutting it off from Saudi Arabia, after continued tensions between the two Islamic nations. Don't be giving Trump ideas! |