September 4, 2018 (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- 2015–2018 Iraqi protests
- Seven people are killed and more than 30 are injured during a rally in Basra, Iraq after security forces opened fire. (Yeni Şafak English)
- Libyan civil war
- The United Nations reports that a ceasefire has been agreed upon by non-governmental militias fighting in Tripoli. (BBC)
Arts and culture
- The new book of investigative journalist Bob Woodward, Fear, draws the ire of the White House. (Fox News) (Vox)
- A pair of Judy Garland's famous ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz (1939) are recovered by police. The shoes were stolen from a museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota in 2005. (BBC)
Business and economy
- International reactions to the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen
- Spain confirms that it has cancelled the sale of 400 laser-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia because of concerns about the weapons' use in the conflict in Yemen. (Reuters)
- Amazon becomes the second trillion-dollar company in the United States. (BBC)
Disasters and accidents
- 2018 Pacific typhoon season
- Typhoon Jebi kills at least 11 people in Japan, while more than 300 are injured. It is considered the strongest typhoon in the country in 25 years. (BBC)
- A bridge collapses in Kolkata, resulting in three deaths and 25 injuries. (Oneindia)
Law and crime
- 70 protesters, including television actress Piper Perabo, are arrested at the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination. (People) (The Hill)
- Table Rock Lake duck boat accident
- Tia Coleman, an Indianapolis woman who lost her husband and eight other relatives in the sinking of a duck boat in Branson, Missouri, files a lawsuit against the tour boat operators and manufacturer. (Indy Star)
Politics and elections
- Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination
- The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee opens confirmation hearings for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. (NPR)
- The European Ombudsman, Emily O'Reilly, mentions four counts of maladministration by the European Commission in the fast-track nomination of Martin Selmayr as its Secretary-General in February. (BBC)
- Chicago mayoral election, 2019
- Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announces he will not seek a third term in 2019. (CBS News)
- Government of Jimmy Morales
- President Jimmy Morales and the National Security Council of Guatemala banned the re-entry into the national territory of the head of the CICIG (International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala) Iván Velásquez Gómez. President Morales also criticized the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres and ordered him to immediately replace the CICIG commissioner. (The Washington Post)
- Jon Kyl will replace John McCain as Senator of Arizona. (Huffington Post)
Science and technology
- A Microsoft Azure datacenter in Texas goes down due to a cooling system failure. Outages in cloud services were reported worldwide (Zdnet)