As 2025 comes to a close, Merriam-Webster is marking an annual tradition. On Dec. 15, the leading expert in language announced that “slop” had earned the title of word of the year for 2025. In case ...

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 ...

Has "67" reached its peak? Google added it as an Easter egg in the search engine. The new slang term spiked with Generation Alpha and Gen Z this year. Dictionary.com named "6-7" its 2025 Word of the ...

Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che told the coldest joke of the night during “Weekend Update,” at the expense of Trump’s alleged health problems. “This week, President Trump claimed that ‘affordability ...

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 ...

The sight of the slur shocked and alarmed the mother of a young boy with special needs. Kimberly Steffes of Joliet never imagined a sitting president would use the “R-word,” a derogatory term long ...

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 ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says it is “shameful” that motorists are shouting the “R-word” driving by his home — and that he is “deeply concerned” the hate allegedly started by President Trump could “turn ...

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 ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would not have used the word but suggested Trump's reaction was spontaneous. Walz condemned Trump's language and his characterization of Minnesota's Somali community ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

The Oxford University Press is shining a light on the more toxic side of internet culture by choosing “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. Oxford’s language experts, who are the brains behind the ...