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12:41 AM on Tuesday, October 21

France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy arrives at Paris prison to start serving 5-year sentence for criminal conspiracy

12:35 AM on Tuesday, October 21

Former President Nicolas Sarkozy, en route to prison, says 'an innocent man is being locked up'

12:27 AM on Tuesday, October 21

A court in Slovakia sentences the suspect in attempted assassination of Prime Minister Robert Fico to 21 years in prison

10:54 PM on Monday, October 20

The Seattle Mariners fell just short of reaching the World Series for the first time, losing to the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series

10:38 PM on Monday, October 20

Jaxon Smith-Njigba had his NFL-leading fifth 100-yard receiving game of the season as the Seattle Seahawks beat the Houston Texans 27-19

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

5:00 PM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump is preparing for a significant trip to Asia, aiming to address international trade tensions

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

9:06 AM on Monday, October 20

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

7:38 AM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a critical-minerals deal at the White House

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