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Merriam-Webster is giving its dictionary another “glow-up,” adding 1,400 words and definitions.

Charlie Kirk’s family blamed Utah officials for failing to prevent the conservative activist’s assassination at a state university, in a wrongful death notice announced Wednesday that presages a possible lawsuit.

A man convicted in the shooting deaths of three people is set to be executed Wednesday in Texas.

A Paris court awarded 1 euro to Kim Kardashian for having been the victim of an armed robbery in the French capital in 2016, the amount of compensation she had asked for, according to a lawyer involved in the case.

Tributes began pouring in Wednesday after a deadly news helicopter crash in Los Angeles left three people dead.

Thomas Matthew Crooks struck Trump in the ear during a 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He was subsequently shot dead by the Secret Service.

A news helicopter crashed in the Chatsworth community of Los Angeles while covering a bus collision Tuesday evening, killing three people, officials said.

A magazine, checked out and overdue from a New Hampshire library, has finally been returned — perhaps as long as 132 years late.

Professional athlete Joanna Wietrzyk was seen on video and in photographs running and using shared fitness equipment with feces running down her legs.

A Pennsylvania man with a history of plotting a mass-casualty attack as a minor was charged on Tuesday with obtaining a semiautomatic rifle to carry out an attack for ISIS after he discussed strategies to target non-Muslims, according to court documents.