Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein came to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to support lawmakers as they introduced 'Virginia's Law' -- a ...

A NASCAR sponsor pays a huge sum to their specific driver, making them a living billboard for their advertisement. Every little movement, every action is closely monitored and sometimes controlled by ...

What do “rage bait,” “parasocial,” and “slop” all have in common? They are all words that speak to ways the internet and AI have infiltrated our lives—and their use has spiked dramatically over the ...

Gifted word learner dogs seem capable of eavesdropping about as well as 18-month-old toddlers, the study researchers say. Reading time 4 minutes Dogs might have more tricks up their furry sleeves than ...

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The author, left, and WDWS’ Mike ‘in the Morning’ Haile share a laugh at the Central Illinois Business Magazine Forty Under 40 banquet in October at the I Hotel and Conference Center in Champaign. The ...

We saw it on our phones. We ate it in our bowls. This year, “slop” was everywhere. It was so ubiquitous that it’s been named Merriam-Webster’s word of the year. Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary ...

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 ...

I feel certain that at this time of the year we will be seeing a lot of advertising on television, and hearing it on the radio. We may even still hear an announcer tell us not go anywhere, not because ...

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 ...

After leaving Israel-Premier Tech in November, Canadian company Premier Tech has joined Alpecin as the new co-title sponsor of Mathieu van der Poel's team for 2026, replacing Deceuninck, it was ...

PICKING A WORD of the year is not easy. In the past the American Dialect Society has gone with “tender-age shelters” (2018) and “-ussy” (2022). The Oxford English Dictionary (oed) has caused ...