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9:31 PM on Monday, April 20

Japan has endorsed scrapping a ban on lethal weapons exports, a major change of its postwar pacifist policy as the country seeks to build up its arms industry and deepen cooperation with defense partners

9:04 PM on Monday, April 20

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he survived a vote on his leadership among his own party’s lawmakers, after recent slumps in the polls prompted speculation he might be ousted

8:50 PM on Monday, April 20

A mechanical issue with their charter plane forced the Toronto Blue Jays to bus from Phoenix to Southern California on Sunday night, a six-hour drive on a dark desert highway that got the team to its Orange County hotel at around 12:30 a.m. Toronto manager John Schneider said he was informed by Blue Jays traveling secretary Rodney Hiemstra of the mechanical problem at about 4 p.m. on Sunday, as the Blue Jays were finishing a 10-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks

7:55 PM on Monday, April 20

Across Shreveport, Louisiana, schools were limping through the day, stung by the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. in more than two years

7:50 PM on Monday, April 20

Los Angeles Dodgers closer Edwin Díaz will undergo surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow and is expected to miss about three months

7:39 PM on Monday, April 20

Alt-pop singer D4vd has been charged with sexually abusing, murdering, and mutilating a 14-year-old girl

7:35 PM on Monday, April 20

Draymond Green doesn't expect Steve Kerr to return as coach of the Golden State Warriors

7:19 PM on Monday, April 20

An Iranian citizen who was indicted more than a decade ago on charges that he shipped military sonar equipment from the U.S. to Iran in violation of American trade sanctions has been extradited to Seattle

6:55 PM on Monday, April 20

The Justice Department has filed a complaint against Washington, D.C., and its water authority for a massive sewage leak into the Potomac River

6:24 PM on Monday, April 20

The satirical news outlet The Onion has a new plan to take over conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars platforms and turn them into parodies

5:22 PM on Monday, April 20

Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is out of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet after multiple allegations of abusing her position, including an affair with a subordinate and drinking on the job

3:51 PM on Monday, April 20

Mexico's government says a Canadian tourist has been killed and six other people injured when a man with a gun opened fire at the historic Teotihuacán pyramids

3:01 PM on Monday, April 20

A Pennsylvania court has ruled that the state's constitution guarantees a right to abortion

1:37 PM on Monday, April 20

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says she was unaware of any collaboration between the U.S. and local authorities in Chihuahua after four officials died in an accident over the weekend

1:27 PM on Monday, April 20

A balloon landed in a Southern California backyard over the weekend

1:10 PM on Monday, April 20

Singer D4vd has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the death of a 14-year-old girl who authorities say was found dismembered in his Tesla last year

11:53 AM on Monday, April 20

Authorities say a planned fight among young people escalated into a shooting at a North Carolina park Monday morning that left two teenage boys dead and five other people injured

10:49 AM on Monday, April 20

The San Francisco 49ers and star left tackle Trent Williams have agreed to a two-year, $50 million contract that gives the team clarity about the future of one of its most important players before the NFL draft

6:48 AM on Monday, April 20

Searchers from several countries are scouring the Pacific near the Northern Mariana Islands for six crew members from a cargo ship that overturned during a typhoon that tore through the U.S. territory

1:58 AM on Monday, April 20

Police say a Louisiana man who fatally shot seven of his children and another child used an an assault-style weapon despite a 2019 felony firearms conviction