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NEW YORK (AP) — Taylor Swift has released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.

NEW YORK (AP) — The children crumple and fall to the stage, victims of King Herod’s assassins. Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorializes the student protesters who were massacred by Mexican armed forces in 1968.

A lawyer says planned revisions to a nearly 30-year-old policy on who can donate to sperm banks will continue to impose unnecessary screening questions on gay and bisexual men.

OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem says central banks will make monetary policy decisions geared toward their own economies, which means some countries may begin cutting interest rates before others.

NEW YORK (AP) — The worst week for big technology stocks since the COVID crash in 2020 dragged Wall Street on Friday across the finish line of another losing week. The S&P 500 dropped 0.9% to close out its third straight losing week.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index closed up nearly 100 points Friday, helped by strength in energy and financial stocks, while U.S. markets were mixed. The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 98.93 points at 21,807.37.

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly two years after the knife attack that nearly killed him, Salman Rushdie appears both changed and very much the same.

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TORONTO — TikTok is testing an app that rivals Instagram in Canada. The social media company says TikTok Notes became available for download and "limited testing" in Canada and Australia this week. TikTok Notes allows users to share photos and text.

OTTAWA — Excluding front-line supervisors at a Montreal casino from organizing under the Quebec labour-relations regime does not infringe their constitutional rights, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.