New regulations included in the bill, which ended the government shutdown on Wednesday, take a jab at the hemp industry.

Cambridge Dictionary has named parasocial as the Word of the Year for 2025. The year was marked by interest in the one-sided parasocial relationships that people form with celebrities, influencers and ...

The Los Angeles housing market is stagnant—big time. An annual report from real estate listing portal Redfin shows that a ...

Go ahead and roll your eyes. Shrug your shoulders. Or maybe just juggle your hands in the air. Dictionary.com's word of the year isn't even really a word. It's the ...

TYLER, Texas — If you’re a parent, brace yourself — because the thing your kid won’t stop saying just became officially part of the cultural lexicon. Exactly. But don’t you dare say “sixty-seven.” ...

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 ...

There are words that are easy to understand, and then, there are words like “recondite.” The thing about “recondite” is that it doesn’t just describe something obscure and complex to figure out, it is ...

Ever heard someone waffle on an answer during a debate? There is an elegant word for that, and it is called “tergiversate.” It may be a mouthful of syllables, but its meaning can be as evasive as the ...

Ever caught a whiff of nostalgia that transported you back in time to an endless summer day? That’s the power of “redolent” — a word that evokes memory, scent and feeling all at once. But how did a ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Shira Efron, senior fellow at RAND about how two years of war in Gaza has affected Israelis as a people. Two years on, an overwhelming majority of Israelis say they want an ...

Two years on, an overwhelming majority of Israelis say they want an end to the war in Gaza to release the hostages, and that might become a reality soon. Yesterday, Hamas said it accepts President ...