- President Trump withdrew the United States from the Iran Deal.
- Michael Cohen took payments from a company linked to a Russian oligarch, as well as from companies attempting to sway the administration, like AT&T and Novartis.
- ZTE, a major Chinese maker of mobile phones, shutdown its main operations after the Department of Commerce ruled that the company could no longer use American products after for violating American sanctions on Iran and North Korea.
- For the first time, Iran attacked Israel directly, and Israel retaliated by striking a large number of sites in Syria.
- North Korea released three American prisoners.