Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pledge to bring in the “warmth of collectivism” has triggered a hysterical meltdown among ...

In the winter of 2009, Special Olympics held a global youth summit that launched a new effort to end the use of the r-word, “retarded,” as a disability slur. Over the following decade, the initiative ...

After a full year of hectic news, original trends and nonstop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word: “slop.” On Dec. 15, Merriam-Webster announced “slop” as the 2025 Word of ...

AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught of content that has swept the web over the past 12 months, Merriam-Webster ...

Merriam-Webster has selected "slop" for the dictionary company's 2025 word of the year. The leading lexicographers define slop as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity ...

"Gerrymander," "performative" and "touch grass" were also popular words users of the dictionary looked up in the past year. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief In a world of digital noise and clutter ...

After President Donald Trump used the word “retarded” recently, social media posts including the term tripled, fueling a trend that has disability advocates on edge. A new report finds that a ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...

Sometimes, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is predictable. And 2025 was one of those years. Extremely unsurprisingly, the famous and venerable publisher of dictionaries and other reference ...

A growing share of workers say political tension, economic pressure and rapid AI advances are draining their energy at work. Mentions of the word "fatigue" on Glassdoor rose 41% this year, a signal ...

On the evening before Thanksgiving, the president of the United States took to his social media platform to claim in a lengthy screed that immigration was destroying the country. In one spurious ...

President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that the rising cost of living in the United States is a “fake narrative” that is being pushed by Democrats. Watch in the player above. “I inherited the worst ...