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Merriam-Webster���s 2025 word of the year is 'slop' 12/15/2025 12:09am • 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 Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year. ���It���s such an illustrative word," said Greg Barlow, M Jurors are deliberating in murder trial of Brian Walshe, whose wife disappeared 2 years ago 12/12/2025 04:41pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Jurors began deliberating Friday in the murder trial of Brian Walshe, the Massachusetts man accused of killing and dismembering his wife more than two years ago. Ana Walshe���s body has never been found since she disappeared on New Year���s Day 2023. The same day his wife was last s South Africa eases affirmative action regulations on Starlink and others that Musk said were racist 12/12/2025 03:46pm • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) ��� South Africa's communications minister ordered a policy change Friday that allows Elon Musk's Starlink and other foreign-owned satellite internet providers to operate in the country without selling 30% of their local equity to Black or other non-white owners. The pol Converts are finding Eastern Orthodoxy online. The church wants to help them commune face-to-face 12/12/2025 07:14am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them there. ���You discovered Orthodoxy online. You learned about it online. Now you���re here, the i Reddit challenges Australia's world-first law banning children under 16 from social media 12/12/2025 12:09am • MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) ��� Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia���s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world���s most popular social media platforms. California-based Reddit Inc.���s suit filed in the Hig Tanzania opposition calls for transitional government after disputed election 12/11/2025 11:35am • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Tanzania���s main opposition party called Thursday for the establishment of a transitional government after a disputed election that it was barred from taking part in, saying the current government has ���no legitimacy.��� John Heche, vice chair of the opposition party Chadem Movie Review: In 'Scarlet,' transplanting 'Hamlet' to an anime dreamworld 12/10/2025 06:06pm • The Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda has made some amazing films that take profound leaps into dreamlike worlds. Hosoda���s ���Mirai��� (2018) is about a 4-year-old boy who���s resentful of his newborn sister. But in his backyard garden, he meets his sister as a teenager. This is just the firs OpenAI names Slack CEO Dresser as first chief of revenue as ChatGPT maker aims to make a profit 12/09/2025 04:45pm • SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� OpenAI said Tuesday it has picked Slack CEO Denise Dresser as its first chief of revenue, a message to wary investors that the ChatGPT maker is serious about making a profit from its artificial intelligence technology. OpenAI said Dresser will oversee global revenue strategy a EPA eliminates mention of fossil fuels in website on warming's causes. Scientists call it misleading 12/09/2025 04:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Environmental Protection Agency has removed any mention of fossil fuels ��� the main driver of global warming ��� from its popular online page explaining the causes of climate change. Now it only mentions natural phenomena, even though scientists calculate that nearly all of Tanzanian cities are empty as police patrol streets following calls for protests 12/09/2025 12:47pm • NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ��� Police officers heavily patrolled mostly empty streets in major Tanzanian cities following calls for protests over the ruling party���s disputed election victory that the government declared illegal, as rights groups criticized a clampdown on free speech in the East African n More people crowdfunded for essential needs like food and housing in 2025, according to GoFundMe 12/09/2025 12:05pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� More and more people are turning to GoFundMe for help covering the cost of housing, food and other basic needs. The for-profit crowdfunding platform's annual ���Year in Help��� report, released Tuesday, underscored ongoing concerns around affordability. The number of fundraisers st Honduras is still waiting for the final presidential election count, over a week after the vote 12/08/2025 07:40pm • TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) ��� More than a week after Hondurans voted to elect a new president, results continue to trickle in as complaints grow about the slow process and allegations of irregularities by the three top candidates. The election to pick a new president and Congress was held on Nov. 3 How to Choose Between the Digital and Paper ACT 12/08/2025 07:00pm • Though the ACT went digital, students still have the option to take the college admissions test with a pencil and paper. A?CT, a nonprofit organization that develops the test, is the only assessment company that still offers paper, says Juan Elizondo, ACT director of strategic communications. Studen What to Expect at Your First Prenatal Appointment 12/08/2025 07:00pm • At her first prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, Shana Westlake of Beacon, New York, remembers entering her OB-GYN's office full of anxiety. "They took my blood pressure, and it was through the roof," Westlake says. She wondered whether her high blood pressure was cause for alarm. Thankful Golden Globes enter the world of podcasts and tread carefully, avoiding controversy 12/08/2025 05:19pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� The Golden Globes this year introduced a best podcast category and, predictably, the nominees announced Monday will get people talking. The six nominees for the inaugural best podcast award are ���Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard,��� ���Call Her Daddy,��� ���Good Hang with Amy Poeh