Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri denied that social media use amounts to clinical addiction while testifying in a landmark California trial against Meta and YouTube. The case, centred on allegations that platforms knowingly hooked children for profit, could set a major legal precedent for similar lawsuits across the US

The US and Mexico seized several tons of cocaine from a vessel in the Pacific Ocean in a coordinated operation near Clarion Island. Multiple arrests were made amid ongoing tensions over drug cartels and border security. A free trade agreement between the two neighbors and Canada is up for renegotiation this year