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9:50 PM on Monday, October 20

Japanese parliament elects ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister

9:05 PM on Monday, October 20

House Republicans are preparing to release a report about President Joe Biden's mental state and the alleged misuse of the presidential autopen during his term

9:02 PM on Monday, October 20

A chess grandmaster who started as a child prodigy and quickly became one of the most influential American voices in the sport has died at age 29

8:16 PM on Monday, October 20

Typhoon Halong's remnants hit western Alaska with intense force and even pulled homes from their foundations

8:11 PM on Monday, October 20

George Springer put Toronto ahead with a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Blue Jays advanced to the World Series for the first time since 1993 by beating the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series

8:01 PM on Monday, October 20

Blue Jays beat Seattle Mariners 4-3 in Game 7 of ALCS and will face Los Angeles Dodgers in World Series

7:35 PM on Monday, October 20

The Los Angeles Dodgers are aiming for a second consecutive World Series championship

7:33 PM on Monday, October 20

Jahmyr Gibbs scored on a 78-yard sprint in the second quarter, a 5-yard spinning plunge in the third and accounted for a career-high 218 yards from scrimmage to lead the Detroit Lions in a 24-9 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night

3:05 PM on Monday, October 20

North Carolina's Republican-controlled legislature has formally begun redrawing the state's congressional district map

2:06 PM on Monday, October 20

Police in California say former NFL running back Doug Martin died after struggling with officers who were taking him into custody

12:43 PM on Monday, October 20

Police have arrested a man accused of threatening to open fire at the world’s busiest airport in Atlanta

11:35 AM on Monday, October 20

An official preliminary report says the failure of a steel cable and shortcomings in maintenance contributed to the crash of a streetcar in the Portuguese capital Lisbon last month

9:06 AM on Monday, October 20

Myanmar's military says it has shut down a major online scam operation near the Thailand border

8:56 AM on Monday, October 20

A man who sent a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” to a woman he admits sexually assaulting in college has been sentenced to two to four years in prison

8:55 AM on Monday, October 20

Officials say many federal officers involved in immigration enforcement in Chicago have body cameras, but expanding their use requires more funding from Congress

8:53 AM on Monday, October 20

Nicolas Sarkozy is set to become the first former French president in living memory to be imprisoned

6:24 AM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a critical minerals deal

5:19 AM on Monday, October 20

The Louvre remained closed Monday after historic jewels were stolen in a daring daylight heist

12:17 AM on Monday, October 20

Bolivia’s first conservative president-elect in 20 years, Rodrigo Paz, has injected a sharp note of realism into his plan for solving Bolivia’s worst economic crisis in four decades

9:12 PM on Sunday, October 19

Police say about 50 South Koreans repatriated from Cambodia have been formally arrested for allegedly working for online scam organizations in Cambodia