Author: Newark Independent

The largest global online community of F1 fans has moved to ban the use of X (formerly Twitter) links across its reach. Reddit’s Formula 1 community boasts almost 5 million users, with the F1 ‘subreddit’ making the decision to ban all external links to the social media network X (formerly Twitter). Reddit bans X/Twitter links across F1 subreddit Reddit’s F1 community will no longer be able to post or share links to the X/Twitter platform as the social media giant has moved to ban the platform – initially on a trial basis. The ban is something many of Reddit’s prominent…

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President Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan, said on Sunday that not all undocumented migrants will be removed from the United States, citing costs associated with the administration’s mass deportation plans.Newsweek has reached out to the White House via email for comment on Sunday morning.Why It MattersThe Trump administration has vowed to conduct the largest mass deportation operation in U.S. history targeting the estimated 11.7 million people who are in the country without legal status.A New York Times/Ipsos poll, carried out from January 2 to 10, found 55 percent of voters strongly or somewhat supported such plans. Eighty-eight percent supported…

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If it wasn’t the most important rally of the final, it had to be right up there.Zverev’s won-loss in rallies of nine shots or more in his five previous matches at AO 2025? He won 72 and lost 56.Luck helpsWith their previous three duels going to a deciding third or fifth set and Zverev possibly playing the best tennis of his career, few seemingly predicted a straight-sets result in the Italian’s favour.The sliding doors moment came in the second set. Had Zverev won it, who knows how the final would have veered.Facing a 0-30 hole at 4-5 – after two…

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Nicotine control groups that have waited years for a nationwide ban on vaping flavours say they’ve now been given indications it won’t happen — despite the minister responsible vowing last fall that the restrictions were coming “soon.”Cynthia Callard, executive director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada, said she and representatives from a number of anti-smoking organizations met this week with a senior staff member for Mental Health and Addictions Minister Ya’ara Saks.”We left the meeting with the firm belief that we are not going to see a ban on vaping flavours this year,” she said. “We are greatly disappointed.”Callard said the official gave a range…

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Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg Long after her departure from Meta, Sheryl Sandberg has once again captured public attention, not for her groundbreaking contributions to the tech industry but rather for an old controversy. With Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg distancing himself from her, while a Delaware judge has imposed sanctions, the timing couldn’t be more intriguing. Sandberg finds herself accused of deleting emails related to the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal, a debacle that saw the unauthorized harvesting of millions of users’ personal information to tailor political advertisements. This scandal not only raised alarm bells about privacy and data ethics but…

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For years, social media felt like the place where it all happened. If you wanted to know the latest news, the freshest culture and the smartest opinions about all of it, they were to be found there. Feeds felt like a kind of necessity, at least if you wanted to be up to date.Increasingly, it feels like the place where it all goes wrong. More and more people are post-posting; fed up with being yelled at and being encouraged to yell at others, in a landscape in which you either shout or are inaudible. The snide joke about Twitter in…

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