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Canada seeks to ban social media accounts for children under 16, joining growing global effort

TORONTO, June 11, 2026 (AP) — Canada introduced legislation on Wednesday that could bar children younger than 16 from having social media accounts unless the companies show they can make their platforms safe. Canada is joining a growing global effort to tighten safety protections. Canadian government officials said social media platforms can obtain an exemption if they have put in place sufficient safeguards. “We are failing our children. Enough is enough,” Marc Miller, Canada’s culture minister, said. “We need basic protection in place.” The legislation covers seven types of harmful content including content that induces children to harm themselves, content

Air India crash report delayed due to unfinished engine examination, Bloomberg News reports

June 11 (Reuters) – Investigators will miss Friday’s one-year ‌deadline to explain why an Air India jet crashed because an examination of the Boeing 787 plane’s engines in the U.S. still needs to be completed, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) will likely issue a status report this week focused on the reasons behind the delay, the report added, citing people familiar with the matter. India is ​expected to cite the need to complete the engine examination as the reason for the delay in issuing a final report, a source ​with knowledge of the matter

OB-GYN group makes vaccine recommendations for the first time

A prominent OB-GYN group announced vaccine recommendations on Wednesday that differ from what the U.S. government advises. The immunization schedule is specifically for pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women. It aligns with prior recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, before changes were made under the Trump administration and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Earlier this year, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists withdrew from a CDC advisory committee on vaccines because of those changes, which have spawned legal challenges. “So now for the first time, ACOG has made the decision to formally release its own

Trump has a new, surprising take on the higher cost of living: ‘I love the inflation’

WASHINGTON, June 11, 2026 (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday showed how he had learned to stop worrying about inflation and simply, in his own words, “love” it. Asked about the new report that the consumer price index in May had jumped 4.2% over the last year, the president took a surprisingly optimistic tack with the challenging news. Trump didn’t dismiss the affordability issue as a “hoax” that was started by Democrats, as he has done previously. Nor did he claim that he was bringing down the cost of living. Instead, after the government said that inflation spiked to

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