Politics: 2025Talks - November 4, 2025

Politics and views in the United States. Californians will vote on a constitutional amendment for mid-decade redistricting. The Trump Administration will partially fund SNAP and advocates worry about racial profiling amid intensified immigration...

Where Christmas advert stars are now…from John Lewis boy who acted with Johnny Depp to Mean Girls role & brutal trolling

NOTHING kicks off the festive period like the arrival of the John Lewis Christmas advert. This year the seasonal tear-jerker sees a teenage lad reaching out to his dad with a gift of a vinyl record, ’90s banger Where Love Lives by Alison Limerick,...

One year after Trump’s win, Democrats fight to rebuild in key state races on election day

One year after Donald Trump won his way back into the White House, voters are going back to the ballot box in a test of the president’s popularity and whether Democrats are able to rebound from their catastrophic losses of 2024. With governor’s...

Meet the shot put champion doubling up as a bobsleigh pilot with an eye on Milan 2026

Walking through the University of Bath’s vast sports complex to Britain’s only bobsleigh push-start track, a momentary silence is broken by the thwack of a ball and hearty cheers from excited adolescent spectators. It is the first Wednesday...

Victor Conte, architect of infamous sport steroids scandal, dies aged 75

Victor Conte, the architect of a scheme to provide undetectable performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes including baseball stars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi and Olympic track champion Marion Jones decades ago, has died. He was 75....

Women’s soccer faces plenty of serious threats. So why the panic about trans players? | Lesley Ryder

On 26 October, Angel City FC’s Elizabeth Eddy made her first post on X in nearly two years. In it, Eddy in essence responded to the Guardian’s report that the NWSL had quietly dropped its inclusion policy for trans and intersex athletes, leaving...

Firms not supporting staff through IVF could lose £217m in hidden costs, study shows

UK employers who do not formally support staff undergoing fertility treatments could be losing £217.3m a year in sick leave, lost productivity and resignations, research estimates. Companies without fertility leave pay £35,317 per affected...

ADWEEK Commerce Advantage: Retail Media Has a Scale Problem as the Holidays Loom

ADWEEK Advantage is part of a new series where every month, our top editors interpret what happened in each vertical, and what it means for the future. Commerce media was the hottest ad category a couple of years ago, promising advertisers...

'Get laid off with me’: Inside the TikTok trend of people turning job loss into content

Tejal Rives woke up last Tuesday and kicked off her workday like she usually does: by checking her work emails. Only this time, she couldn’t access the account. Her phone needed a software update, so she thought perhaps that was to blame. “Then I...

Facebook Dating Explained: What It Is, Who’s Using It, and When It Might Launch in India

Facebook Dating has quietly become one of Meta’s fastest-growing features in several global markets, yet it’s still missing from India — one of Facebook’s biggest and most active user bases. Meta recently revealed that Facebook Dating now has...

CTA logs 14,000 smoking complaints in 14 months

No matter what time Rigo Osorio rides the CTA Red Line on his daily commute, he usually spots someone smoking. “You see smoking people every time,” Osorio said as he waited for his train at the Belmont Red Line station on a recent evening. For...

Jiji launches “Deals Na Water” Black Friday with up to 85% off for shoppers

Jiji, Nigeria’s leading online marketplace, has officially launched its 2025 Black Friday campaign, themed “Deals Na Water.” The sale offers shoppers massive discounts of up to 85% across top-selling categories like Phones & Tablets, Electronics,...

Election Day 2025: What to watch out for in key test for Trump and Democrats

Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Windows 11 upgrade panic could lead Windows 10 users to malware

If you were hoping Microsoft might reconsider its decision to pull the plug on Windows 10, then you're all out of luck. The tech giant ended support for the operating system on October 14, 2025, leaving approximately 400 million Windows PCs...

Voters go to the polls on Proposition 50

Keep up with LAist. If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. Voters go to the polls on Tuesday to decide the...

Commonwealth Bank, Temu and HCF among those named at this year’s Shonky awards

Commonwealth Bank is the recipient of “a special prize” in Choice’s 2025 Shonky awards for failing its low income-customers, with the consumer advocacy group singling out Australia’s biggest bank for charging the cohort a collective $270m in...

The Virginia Gubernatorial Race Nears an End

At her own rally last week, Earle-Sears insisted that she had a path to victory due to higher turnout from Republican voters. “The polls are showing that when it comes to Republican-leaning polls, where it really matters that people come, well, we...

Fireworks launched from car on busy Cardiff road

South Wales Police said the incident happened on the A4232 close to the Butetown tunnels (Image: Google) Two men have been charged with throwing fireworks from a moving vehicle on the A4232 in Cardiff. Roads policing officers for South Wales...

How auto dealers can win in AI Overviews

AI Overviews are taking over Google’s prime real estate. If your dealership isn’t showing up there, your competitors might. To help dealerships understand what they can do to ensure placements in AI Overviews, the C-4 Analytics SEO team conducted...

Reddit targeted by Australia’s under-16s social media ban as list of platforms grows

Reddit and video streaming platform Kick will join the likes of Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok in being required by the Australian government to ban users under the age of 16, the federal communications minister has revealed. On Wednesday night,...