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8:43 PM on Monday, October 20

Japan’s parliament is set to elect ultraconservative Sanae Takaichi as the country’s first female prime minister Tuesday

8:00 PM on Monday, October 20

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

7:51 PM on Monday, October 20

A spokesperson for Joe Biden says the former Democratic president has completed several weeks of radiation therapy to treat an aggressive form of prostate cancer

6:44 PM on Monday, October 20

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean has been released by prosecutors in Ecuador

6:05 PM on Monday, October 20

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

5:17 PM on Monday, October 20

A U.S. appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can take command of 200 Oregon National Guard troops, but he's still barred from actually deploying those troops — at least for now

5:04 PM on Monday, October 20

In an interview with The Associated Press, Adam Driver says he developed a Kylo Ren “Star Wars” movie that would have been directed by Steven Soderbergh

4:37 PM on Monday, October 20

The White House has started tearing down part of the East Wing to build the ballroom President Donald Trump wants added to the building

4:24 PM on Monday, October 20

The United States added Mexico, Costa Rica and Jamaica to its proposal to host the 2031 Women’s World Cup

3:43 PM on Monday, October 20

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

2:50 PM on Monday, October 20

The national chair of the Democratic Party says online comments made by a Senate candidate in Maine in which the candidate appeared to endorse political violence, criticize police officers, and express other controversial views were wrong, but not disqualifying from office

12:06 PM on Monday, October 20

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

11:55 AM on Monday, October 20

Prosecutors in Philadelphia say remains found buried in a wooded area behind an abandoned school are those of a 23-year-old woman who’d been missing for about two weeks

11:53 AM on Monday, October 20

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

9:24 AM on Monday, October 20

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

8:59 AM on Monday, October 20

A problem at Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world

8:17 AM on Monday, October 20

Israel’s military says Palestinian militants in Gaza have handed over another body of a hostage

5:20 AM on Monday, October 20

President Donald Trump says it's possible that Ukraine can defeat Russia, but he’s doubtful that it will happen

3:17 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

12:04 AM on Monday, October 20

A U.S. man authorities say faked his death and fled to the United Kingdom to avoid rape charges has been sentenced to at least five years in prison