Webster’s 2025 word of the year is “slop.” The word was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud. It evolved more generally ...

Sometimes, the Merriam-Webster word of the year is predictable. And 2025 was one of those years.

Joe Walsh is a senior editor for digital politics at CBS News. Joe previously covered breaking news for Forbes and local news in Boston. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a ...

The U.S. agency overseeing immigration made the announcement after an Afghan man shot two National Guard troops near the White House. By Elian Peltier and Hamed Aleaziz Elian Peltier reported from ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration has made progress in speeding up green card and visa processing, while noting that more people are becoming naturalized U.S.

Dictionary.com has crowned a set of numbers as its 2025 word of the year. It says it reserves that distinction for a word that reflects "social trends and global events that defined that year" and ...

Dictionary.com has announced its 2025 Word of the Year, and if you're not up to speed on this year's slang, you may be puzzled by the outcome. The online dictionary announced on Oct. 29 that its Word ...

Sorry, parents and teachers of middle schoolers: your days of hearing "67" shouted randomly are far from over. Dictionary.com on Wednesday announced it has chosen "67 ...

The word "robotics" might sound modern, but its origins are surprisingly old. The term “robot” first showed up in a 1920 play called R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) by Czech writer Karel Čapek. In ...

An early launch of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms by the Trump administration may have given the process, which has been marred with trouble the past few cycles, a leg up ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. WASHINGTON — For the first time in four years, the federal government plans to begin processing initial ...

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