August 1, 2018, An orb and two crowns, part of the Regalia of Sweden, are stolen from Strängnäs Cathedral. (BBC)
August 1, 2018, The Eiffel Tower in Paris shuts down after workers go on a strike over ticketing changes. (Upi)
August 2, 2018, Apple Inc. becomes the first public company to be worth US$1 trillion. (BBC)
August 2, 2018, Kepler-452b emerges as an exoplanet that might support alien life. (Sky News)
August 2, 2018, Hurricane Hector becomes the fourth named hurricane of the eastern Pacific's hurricane season. (TC Palm)
August 2, 2018, Archeologists of the Romano-Germanic Museum report the discovery of the foundations of a Roman library building in Cologne. Dating from the 2nd century CE, it is the oldest library yet discovered in Germany. (BBC)
August 2, 2018, Pope Francis changes Catholic Church teaching to fully reject the death penalty, saying that it would work to abolish the death penalty worldwide. (The Washington Post)
August 3, 2018, Release of Christopher Robin
August 3, 2018, Release of The Spy Who Dumped Me
August 3, 2018, Release of Billionaire Boys Club
August 3, 2018, Release of The Darkest Minds
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August 3, 2018, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo states in an interview that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will ultimately set the timeline for denuclearization. (CBS News)
August 3, 2018, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory releases a report officially disclosing a meteor explosion of roughly 2.1 kilotons of force near Thule Air Base in northwest Greenland on July 25. The United States Air Force confirms the explosion, adding that it did not impact operations at Thule Air Base. (The Independent)
August 3, 2018, The Space Needle in Seattle unveils the world's first revolving glass floor. (CNN)
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August 4, 2018, Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro survives what he claims is an assassination attempt involving drones while speaking at a military event in Caracas. Eight people are injured. (BBC)
August 5, 2018, Venezuelan authorities detain six people involved in what they call an assassination attempt on Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro. (The Hill)
August 5, 2018, Police in New Mexico rescue 11 malnourished children being kept in squalid conditions in a remote desert compound. (BBC)
August 5, 2018, A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes Lombok, Indonesia. A tsunami warning is issued. At least 131 people are killed and more than 238 are injured. (BBC)
August 6, 2018, Series Premiere of Lodge 49
August 6, 2018, Facebook removes several InfoWars-related pages from its platform, for what it describes as glorification of violence and dehumanizing language. YouTube deletes Alex Jones' main account for repeated Terms of Service violations. Apple and Spotify pull Jones' podcasts. Editor Paul Joseph Watson calls Facebook's move "political censorship" on Twitter. (NBC News)
August 6, 2018, The Mendocino Complex Fire grows into the largest active wildfire in California history. (BBC)
August 7, 2018, The Australian Bureau of Statistics says the total population of Australia has hit 25 million. (BBC)
August 7, 2018, The Office of the United States Trade Representative publishes its finalized list of 279 Chinese goods, worth $16 billion, to be subject to a 25% tariff from August 23. (Reuters)
August 8, 2018, Release of Dog Days
August 8, 2018, U.S. Representative Chris Collins (R–NY) is arrested on charges of securities and wire fraud, conspiracy and lying to investigators. He is accused of passing nonpublic information about Innate Immunotherapeutics, a biotech company, to his son, who traded on the information and passed it along to others. Collins was a director of the company and also a major investor. (NPR)
August 8, 2018, China announces 25% tariffs on an additional US$16 billion worth of imports from the United States, effective August 23, matching yesterday's decision by the United States. (Bloomberg)
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August 9, 2018, Germany lifts a blanket ban on Nazi symbolism in video games, including the swastika. (Deutsche Welle)
August 10, 2018, Release of BlacKkKlansman
August 10, 2018, Release of Meg
August 10, 2018, Release of Slender Man
August 11, 2018, An airport mechanic steals a Horizon Air Bombardier Q400 from Seattle–Tacoma International Airport in the United States, eventually crashing the plane. (CBS News)
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August 11, 2018, A jury in the U.S. state of California awards $289 million to a man who claims that his terminal cancer was caused by Monsanto's glyphosate-containing weed killer. (BBC)
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