January 28, 2026 • "Football" is a word used to refer to different games: American football, the game played at the Super Bowl, where a foot is rarely used to direct the ball. And elsewhere in the ...

After a series of financial failures and family crises, Mansour is forced to make a difficult and morally questionable decision to survive. New choices, complex relationships, and unforeseen events ...

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 ...

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Merriam-Webster declared "slop" its 2025 word of the year on Monday, a sign of growing wariness around artificial intelligence. Slop is now defined as "digital content of low quality that is produced ...

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 ...

Like most tools, generative AI models can be misused. And when the misuse gets bad enough that a major dictionary notices, you know it has become a cultural phenomenon. On Sunday, Merriam-Webster ...

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 the ...

A Portland, Oregon, jury has cleared a black man of assault charges for stabbing a white man — after it was revealed that the victim said the N-word after the attack. Gary Edwards, 43, was found not ...

Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) said that people are exhibiting “shameful” behavior while driving by his house after President Donald Trump issued a statement against the governor. Trump called Walz “seriously ...