Merriam-Webster’s choice of “slop” as its 2025 word of the year calls attention to the psychological consequences of ...

Demitri Camperos, who lost his home in the Eaton Fire, walked from Altadena to Paradise, California, last fall to learn about community rebuilding and resilience, finding hope and connection in the ...

The word sustainability now circulates through fashion with the same overuse—and vagueness—as wellness does to the beauty ...

Abstract: Stop words, which are considered non-predictive, are often eliminated in natural language processing tasks. How-ever, the definition of uninformative vocabulary is vague, so most algorithms ...

As someone with ADHD who writes for a living, I need to block out as many distractions as possible when I’m writing. I ...

Tiffany Johnson, an Oak Park woman who helps the dying navigate the last months and weeks of life, has recently found herself ...

The fallout from NASCAR's federal antitrust trial continued into the new year as NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps on Tuesday ...

NASCAR Commissioner Steve Phelps on Tuesday announced his resignation after more than 20 years with the top racing series in ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly about the Trump administration's moves to reduce Kelly's rank over a video urging military members not to follow illegal orders.

If I looked up the word “unprecedented” in the dictionary, it wouldn’t surprise me to see it defined as “2025.”  No other ...

Kennedy Jr., secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), repealed a rule that required registered ...

One of the earliest mentions of New Year's resolutions appeared in a Boston newspaper in 1813. But the practice itself can be ...