Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro cut ties with the U.S., the Supreme Court ruled to allow the Trump administration's restrictions on transgender military service members to proceed and the longest U.S government shutdown in history ends.
The U.S. and Russia both threatened to withdraw from a nuclear forces treaty, protests continued across France and two ISS-bound rockets were successfully launched.
A NASA spacecraft landed on Mars, a naval clash broke out between Ukraine and Russia and conflict at the U.S.-Mexico border led to the use of tear gas.
A federal judge blocked Trump's ban on granting asylum to illegal immigrants, Ethiopia appointed a new head of the electoral board and the U.S. government released a report on climate change.
Two massive wildfires have burned through hundreds of thousands of acres across the state of California, the UK published a Brexit draft agreement and a new exoplanet was discovered.
U.S. midterm election results are in, a mass shooting occurred in California and a proposal to bar illegal immigrants from being granted asylum has been released.
The suspect in last week's gun attack on a Pittsburgh synagogue has pleaded not guilty, Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil and the Sri Lankan Parliament will reconvene following a political crisis.
A discussion on the efforts being made to increase the percentage of women in the student population.
Investigations are underway into a series of mail bombs threats, flash flooding in Jordan led to at least 17 casualties, Ethiopia swore in its first female president and the official Saudi statement regarding the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has shifted.
The United States and United Kingdom withdrew from a Saudi conference in response to journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance, a mass shooting occurred at a Crimean college and Nicaragua released 38 political protesters.