After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: “slop.” The dictionary publisher defined it as “digital content of low ...

Runners up included "gerrymander," "touch grass," "performative" and "tariff." It's messy, it's meaningless and it's everywhere: "slop" has been crowned as Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year. The ...

Ryan Stevenson has hit back at Chris Sutton after the the Celtic hero branded his criticism of Wilfried Nancy's footwear as the "dumbest and more backward takes I've heard..." And the former Hearts ...

The NBA Cup is still pretty new, and basketball fans want to know why they should care. The league took a page out of the European soccer playbook when it implemented the in-season tournament to try ...

Google Books Ngram, an online tool that tracks the historical frequency of word usage in print, shows remigration peaking in 1797 amid a surge of nativist sentiment that would soon produce the Alien ...

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Belichick's UNC tenure produced roster chaos, off-field scandals and missed planning Two wins would secure bowl eligibility, restore ...

It’s a Sunday afternoon: farmers markets, churches, families with strollers and brunch. Exhausted from endless assignments, projects, meetings and practices, I finally have time to catch a break, but ...

The Kansas Republican Party is criticized for denouncing racist messages from its Young Republicans while ignoring past racist comments against Native Americans. The author cites a state ...

Once upon a time, the English language was full of stories with “blossoms,” “rivers,” and “moss.” But these words are disappearing from our vocabularies — and along with them, our connection to the ...

I was reading a newspaper headline the other day and it referenced an event as being the “first annual.” It was grating, probably because I had just read a George Will column about “misapplied or worn ...

It’s August. It’s hot. There’s rancor everywhere around us. Let’s take a break this week and cool off with something light. It starts with a letter to the editor, a newspaper staple often fueled with ...