William Webster says he just couldn't pass it up. Outside his new smokehouse and bar on North Monroe Street, cold rain is turning the neighborhood gray. Across the street is a boarded-up hardware ...

In the first few pages of On Breathing, the psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster remembers a patient who responded to a bad heartbreak by obsessively tracking her breathing against her heartbeat. In forcing ...

October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was born in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758. Webster’s two-volume An ...

According to a news release from the dictionary, “Slop” is Merriam-Webster's word of 2025. The word is defined as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of ...

NEW HAVEN -- Noah Webster made his fortune in New York, but he created his legend in New Haven. A Yale graduate, Webster had published the nation's first daily newspaper and written a spelling book, ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A man who was homeless five years ago is now opening his second business — a small grocery store in downtown Grand Rapids. “My odds are better to win the Michigan Lottery ...