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TORONTO — Netflix subscribers will be marking Canada Day with a federal tax on their monthly bills. The streaming giant told its Canadian customers this week that it will be adding GST or HST charges "due to a recent change in Canada's tax law.

BROOKFIELD, Conn. (AP) — The brother of a boy who some thought was possessed by demons has told the Hartford Courant previously that he resents the retelling of his family's trauma, which features as the plot in the new film “The Conjuring 3.

NEW YORK (AP) — For a fifth time, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has lost a bid to be freed on bail while she awaits trial on charges she recruited teenage girls for the millionaire Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. The 2nd U.S.

LONDON (AP) — A harrowing but poetic tale of comradeship, colonialism and the horrors of war won the International Booker Prize for fiction on Wednesday.

Toronto activist and journalist Desmond Cole and former member of Parliament Celina Caesar-Chavannes are among the finalists for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

Former Southern California star Reggie Bush, who had his Heisman Trophy victory in 2005 vacated for committing NCAA violations, is among the players making their first appearance on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot this year.

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Chauffeured in a classic Porsche, the Brazilian beauty steps out into 1960s Rio de Janeiro.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — At the luxurious Armani hotel inside the world's tallest skyscraper in Dubai, Israelis in kippas and Emiratis in long white robes and kanduras gathered Wednesday to discuss investment opportunities.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A judge has rejected the “stand your ground” defense of a Florida man who said he beat an iguana to death only after it attacked him, biting him on the arm.

TORONTO — Canadian literary legend Margaret Atwood is releasing a new collection of essays on subjects spanning geopolitical upheaval to the definition of granola. "Burning Questions: Essays 2004 - 2021" is set to be published next spring.