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Delegates attend the Liberal Party of Canada convention in Montreal, Friday, April 10, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Liberals adopt policy to restrict kids from social media

Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 6:08 PM CDT

MONTREAL - Federal Liberals voted in favour of setting 16 as the age of majority for Canadians to be able to use social media accounts.

Party grassroots passed a non-binding resolution Saturday morning for the restriction and to place the onus on social media companies to enforce it.

Quebec MP Rachel Bendayan, who presented the idea to her caucus and championed it at the convention, said prolonged social media use can be harmful to the mental health of young Canadians.

She said social media companies need to be more accountable and stop allowing young children to use technologies designed to be addictive.

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Asha Bhosle, one of India’s most versatile Bollywood singers, dies at 92

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Asha Bhosle, one of India’s most versatile Bollywood singers, dies at 92

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NEW DELHI (AP) — Asha Bhosle, one of India’s most versatile Bollywood singers whose performances shaped the country’s musical memory and modern cinema, has died. She was 92.

The legendary singer across genres died Sunday of multiple organ failure at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, Pratit Samdani, a physician at the hospital said. Her son, Anand Bhosle, told reporters that her last rites will be performed on Monday.

Asha was admitted at the hospital on late Saturday with a chest infection and exhaustion, her granddaughter Zanai Bhosle said in a social media post.

Asha’s timeless voice resonated across a film-obsessed India for nearly eight decades, recorded on about 12,000 songs. She boldly embraced cabaret and Western-influenced melodies to forge a distinct musical identity that stood uniquely apart from her sister, Lata Mangeshkar, herself a legendary voice revered as the “Melody Queen.”

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FILE - Indian Bollywood playback singer Asha Bhosle attends the Music launch of Bhosle's film ëMaií in Mumbai, India, Jan. 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

Paramount president Jeff Shell is stepping down from his post amid a legal battle

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Paramount president Jeff Shell is stepping down from his post amid a legal battle

The Associated Press 3 minute read Wednesday, Apr. 8, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime media executive Jeff Shell is leaving Paramount, in a move that arrives amid a messy legal battle and the Skydance-owned company's ongoing efforts to take over Hollywood rival Warner Bros. Discovery.

Paramount confirmed Wednesday that Shell had “elected to transition” from his post as company president and member of the board of directors. The company said its board reviewed allegations made in a recent lawsuit alleging Shell had violated certain securities disclosure rules — but found no evidence of such violation. Still, Paramount said the executive had decided to focus on ongoing litigation.

“PSKY is grateful for Mr. Shell’s many contributions and to have relied on him as a valued advisor,” Paramount said in a statement. The company didn't immediately specify who would succeed Shell as president.

Last month, Shell was sued for fraud by a man named R.J. Cipriani, who claimed he provided the Paramount executive with 18 months of crisis communications services between 2024 and 2026 without any compensation. In exchange for these services, Cipriani alleged that Shell had initially said he would help him develop an English-language version of a Spanish show already airing on Roku, but broke that promise. His March 9 complaint, filed in California, asserted he was now owed $150 million.

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FILE - NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell poses for a photo at the 30th annual Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards gala at the Ziegfeld Ballroom, April 14, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

‘Ketamine Queen’ gets 15 years in prison for selling Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him

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‘Ketamine Queen’ gets 15 years in prison for selling Matthew Perry the drugs that killed him

Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press 5 minute read Wednesday, Apr. 8, 2026

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday handed down a sentence of 15 years in prison to a woman who pleaded guilty to selling actor Matthew Perry the ketamine that killed him in 2023.

“You’re going to have to show some epic resilience,” Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett said to Jasveen Sangha, echoing the defendant's words earlier in the hearing about her self-improvement.

Citing the unique role Sangha admitted to playing in Perry’s death and her broader drug-dealing business, the judge gave the 42-year-old a sentence that will almost certainly be more than all four of her co-defendants combined.

The hearing Wednesday in a Los Angeles courtroom was in many ways the pinnacle of the 2 1/2-year investigation and prosecution that followed the overdose death of the 54-year-old actor, whose role as Chandler Bing on NBC’s “Friends” in the 1990s and 2000s made him one of the biggest television stars of the era.

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FILE - Matthew Perry poses for a portrait in New York on Feb. 17, 2015. (Photo by Brian Ach/Invision/AP, File)

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Ray Stevens recovering after breaking neck

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Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Ray Stevens recovering after breaking neck

The Associated Press 2 minute read Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2026

NASHVILLE (AP) — Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Ray Stevens broke his neck and is recovering at home after being briefly hospitalized, according to a statement published Tuesday.

The 87-year-old country star, who is known for his topical satire, fell late last month, according to the statement released on his X account. He will need to wear a neck brace for about a month.

“He remains fully mobile & in good spirits," the statement said.

Stevens' decades-long recording career has included such hits as the Grammy-winning “Everything Is Beautiful" as well as the zany “The Streak," which captured the mid-1970s craze for running naked in public.

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FILE - Ray Stevens speaks during the annual announcement of inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame, March 18, 2019, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

What to know about Offset, the rapper who was shot outside a Florida casino

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What to know about Offset, the rapper who was shot outside a Florida casino

Maria Sherman, The Associated Press 3 minute read Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement is investigating who may have shot Offset, a former member of the influential hip-hop trio Migos, outside a Florida casino Monday.

Police have detained two people and said the shooting followed a fight at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, just north of Miami. The rapper was in stable condition at a hospital Tuesday. Investigators were working to identify others involved, police said.

As details about the shooting emerge, here is what to know about the prominent Atlanta rapper.

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FILE - Rapper Offset makes a guest appearance during Metro Boomin's set at Billboard R&B Hip-Hop Live, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, at The Novo, in Los Angeles, Aug. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Hulu’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ spinoff ‘The Testaments’ is about girlhood in Gilead

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Hulu’s ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ spinoff ‘The Testaments’ is about girlhood in Gilead

Alicia Rancilio, The Associated Press 5 minute read Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2026

Throughout the six-season run of “The Handmaid's Tale,” dread hung over the series like a perpetual rain cloud. It made sense because the U.S. had turned into a totalitarian society called Gilead where women were stripped of their rights. In “The Testaments,” debuting Wednesday on Hulu, Gilead is still Gilead — but there are glimmers of hope as a through-line.

Like its predecessor, “The Testaments” is based on a novel by Margaret Atwood of the same name. It takes place five years after the events of “The Handmaid's Tale,” and follows privileged girls in Gilead who are on the cusp of adulthood. Viewers are reintroduced to Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) from the original, who now runs a school training girls to be proper young ladies who are ready for marriage and most importantly, babies. There is a class where the girls are tested in how they pour tea.

Lydia has become a bit softer since we last saw her. “At the end of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ she’s in a deep state of remorse and begging for forgiveness when her life, as she knew it, collapses,” said Dowd of her character. “She’s come into this world a gentler human being. She’s still Lydia, but I think she’s had time to let go of the wall that was built around her.”

New story, new heroes

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Parents charged after toddler slips into wolf area and gets hurt at Hersheypark zoo

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Parents charged after toddler slips into wolf area and gets hurt at Hersheypark zoo

Mark Scolforo And Kathy Mccormack, The Associated Press 3 minute read Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2026

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The parents of a toddler who suffered a minor injury at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after squeezing through a fence near a wolf enclosure and making contact with one of the animals have been charged with endangering the welfare of children, police said.

Evidence showed that the parents both walked about 25 to 30 feet (about 8 to 9 meters) away from the child to a seating area with benches and appeared to be paying attention to their cellphones when they noticed what was happening shortly before noon Saturday at ZooAmerica in the Hersheypark theme park, police said in a statement.

The child went through a small opening in a wooden barrier perimeter fence and entered a restricted area near the wolf exhibit, Derry Township Police said. The child reached a chain-link fence enclosure and was hurt after placing a hand through it.

“From the injuries sustained, it appears as though one of the wolves in the enclosure instinctively and naturally grabbed onto the child’s hand with its mouth. Several bystanders intervened and helped pull the child away,” police said in the statement.

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This image taken from an undated video provided by ZooAmerica shows a ZooAmerica sign in Hershey, Pa. (ZooAmerica via AP)

Wireless Festival canceled after UK bars rapper Ye over antisemitic remarks

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Wireless Festival canceled after UK bars rapper Ye over antisemitic remarks

Jill Lawless, The Associated Press 4 minute read Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2026

LONDON (AP) — The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was barred Tuesday from entering the U.K., where he was scheduled to headline the Wireless Festival in July, after a backlash over Ye's history of antisemitic remarks.

Festival organizers canceled the three-day outdoor event as a result of the travel ban and said those who had bought tickets would get refunds.

Ye applied for an electronic travel authorization to visit the U.K., but it was blocked by the government on the grounds that his presence in the country would not be “conducive to the public good.”

“Kanye West should never have been invited to headline Wireless,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement posted on social media. “This government stands firmly with the Jewish community, and we will not stop in our fight to confront and defeat the poison of antisemitism. We will always take the action necessary to protect the public and uphold our values.”

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FILE - Kanye West, who changed his name to Ye in 2021, performs at the Coachella Music & Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on April 20, 2019. . (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

Former Migos rapper Offset is stable after being shot outside a Florida casino, spokesperson says

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Former Migos rapper Offset is stable after being shot outside a Florida casino, spokesperson says

Freida Frisaro And Maria Sherman, The Associated Press 4 minute read Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2026

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — The rapper Offset, a former member of the influential hip-hop trio Migos, was shot outside a Florida casino and was in stable condition, a spokesperson said Tuesday.

Offset, who was once married to Cardi B, was being treated at a hospital after Monday night's shooting, the spokesperson said in a statement, although his exact condition was unknown. Police said the injuries were not life-threatening.

More than three years ago, Offset’s cousin Takeoff, another member of Migos, was shot and killed at a Houston bowling alley.

Monday's shooting followed a fight at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, just north of Miami, police said. Officers detained two people.

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FILE - Offset arrives at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, March 17, 2025, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Lil Nas X enters a mental health program intended to lead to dropped charges of attacking police

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Lil Nas X enters a mental health program intended to lead to dropped charges of attacking police

Andrew Dalton, The Associated Press 2 minute read Monday, Apr. 6, 2026

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge has allowed Lil Nas X to enter a mental health diversion program intended to lead to the dismissal of charges of attacking Los Angeles police officers.

Judge Alan Schneider told the “Old Town Road” rapper and singer on Monday that if he sticks to his treatment program and obeys all laws for two years, his four felony counts will be dismissed.

The court found that the incident was the result of his since-diagnosed bipolar disorder and was an aberration from his usual behavior.

The program, formally known as postponement of prosecution probation, also requires that he not possess guns or threaten violence.

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FILE - Lil Nas X, whose legal name is Montero Lamar Hill, appears in court charged with four felony counts, including three counts of battery with injury on a police officer in Los Angeles on March 12, 2026. (Daniel Cole/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Mahreen Sohail’s story collection ‘Small Scale Sinners’ wins the PEN/Faulkner prize

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Mahreen Sohail’s story collection ‘Small Scale Sinners’ wins the PEN/Faulkner prize

Hillel Italie, The Associated Press 1 minute read Monday, Apr. 6, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Mahreen Sohail’s “Small Scale Sinners,” a wide-ranging debut collection of stories set everywhere from a college campus to a training camp for child soldiers, has won the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

“With sharp and striking prose, ‘Small Scale Sinners’ performs the magical feat of encompassing every aspect of humanity in a slim volume of stories, which reveals the hearty landscape of desire, rage, love, and loss contained in nearly every life,” PEN/Faulkner Awards Committee Chair Lauren Francis-Sharma said in a statement released Monday.

Sohail is from Pakistan and now lives in Washington, D.C. In a statement Monday, she said worked on the book for a decade to “map out possible ways of being an independent woman in the world.”

She will receive $15,000 for the award, which in previous years has been given to authors including Philip Roth, Don DeLillo and Ann Patchett among others.

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Wireless Festival boss stands by Ye headlining concerts as sponsors pull out

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Wireless Festival boss stands by Ye headlining concerts as sponsors pull out

Maria Sherman, The Associated Press 3 minute read Monday, Apr. 6, 2026

As sponsors pull out from London's Wireless Festival over headliner Ye, its organizer is standing by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.

Melvin Benn, the managing director at Festival Republic, shared a statement on Monday backing his company's decision to book Ye.

“Forgiveness and giving people a second chance are becoming a lost virtue in this ever-increasing divisive world,” he wrote. "I would ask people to reflect on their instant comments of disgust at the likelihood of him performing (as was mine) and offer some forgiveness and hope to him as I have decided to do.”

Ye, who changed his name in 2021, is booked to perform in front of around 150,000 revelers over the course of the festival’s three nights, July 10 - 12.

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FILE - Kanye West, known as Ye, watches the first half of an NBA basketball game between the Washington Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers, on March 11, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)

Man cleared in the killing of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay could soon be freed

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Man cleared in the killing of Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay could soon be freed

Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press 4 minute read Monday, Apr. 6, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — A man who was convicted and then cleared of killing rap star Jam Master Jay of Run-DMC could be freed within days after a judge granted him $ 1 million bond on Monday.

Karl Jordan Jr. wasn't automatically let go because he still faces drug charges unrelated to the pioneering DJ's 2002 death. For now, Jordan remains behind bars while prosecutors decide this week whether to appeal the bond decision. If they don't, he'll go free as soon as his bond paperwork is in order.

“There's a real chance, Mr. Jordan, that you may be released in the very near term,” U.S. District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall said. If that happens, she added, “I wish you luck. And you will stay out of trouble.”

Jordan quietly agreed as more than a dozen of his relatives and supporters looked on from the audience. Some have attended nearly six years of court dates in his case and 17 agreed to cosign his bond. Jordan’s loved ones also agreed to put up Southern properties worth a total of $525,000. If released, he will be under electronic monitoring.

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FIL - In this Feb. 22, 2002 file photo made in Los Angeles, the late Rap legend Jam Master Jay, is shown. (AP Photo/Krista Niles, File)

A timeline of the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and investigation

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A timeline of the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and investigation

The Associated Press 6 minute read Monday, Apr. 6, 2026

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Savannah Guthrie returned to hosting the “Today” show on Monday for the first time since her mother disappeared from her Arizona home more than two months ago.

Despite an intense search involving thousands of law enforcement officers and volunteers, there has been no sign of the 84-year-old mother of three since she was reported missing Feb. 1. Her children, including the NBC host, have made heartbreaking video pleas for help, but to no avail.

Here is a timeline of events:

Saturday, Jan. 31

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This image released by NBC shows co-host Savannah Guthrie, left, embracing a fan outside of Rockefeller Center during the

From book bans to basement makeovers: 10 win I Love My Librarian Award for making a difference

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From book bans to basement makeovers: 10 win I Love My Librarian Award for making a difference

Hillel Italie, The Associated Press 2 minute read Monday, Apr. 6, 2026

NEW YORK (AP) — There are many ways to win an I Love My Librarian Award.

You might be a fighter against book bans, like Valerie Byrd Fort at the University of South Carolina; or a mentor for graduate students researching biomedicine, like Joanne Doucette at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, or transform a dark basement into a gathering space for families, like Mary Anne Russo at the Hubbard Public Library in Ohio.

They are among 10 recipients of the I Love My Librarian Award, which comes with a $5,000 cash prize and a $750 stipend for the American Library Association's annual convention, held this year in Chicago from June 25-29. The winners were selected from a pool of more than 1,300 submissions by library patrons who explain how a “librarian made a difference in your life or gone above and beyond to serve your community.”

“We recognize the remarkable contributions these 10 librarians make for our communities, for learning, for our health and for the public good,” ALA President Sam Helmick said in a statement Monday. “These librarians are people who power possibility in our neighborhoods, our schools, and our places of higher learning. Their leadership, creativity, and innovation strengthen the communities they serve, and we are proud to honor them.”

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