Merriam-Webster declares 'ism' as word of the year for 2015
Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism.
Merriam-Webster has picked a small but powerful suffix as word of the year: ism.
The beneficiaries include a manager at the Brazos Bookstore in Houston with a passion for works in translation and a community school in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, dedicated to reaching as many readers as possible.
Volkswagen sales growth in Europe has screeched to a near halt in November compared with both its mass-market and premium peers.
Every morning at 2 a.m., they heard a kick on the door and a threat: Get up or get beaten. For the next 16 hours, No. 31 and his wife stood in the factory that owned them with their aching hands in ice water. They ripped...
An Associated Press investigation found enslaved migrant workers and children ripping the heads, tails, shells and guts off shrimp at processing factories in Thailand.
After terrorist attacks at home and abroad, more Americans than ever - but still less than half - support sending U.S. ground troops to fight the Islamic State, according to a new Associated Press-GfK Poll. A large...
Asian shares meandered Tuesday as jittery investors took cues from gains on Wall Street but volatility remained high ahead of Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan policy meetings.
For nearly three months, anesthesiologist Bashar Taha lived in fear of deadly retaliation.
The Obama administration is reviewing procedures for vetting would-be immigrants, with an eye toward examining applicants' online presence, to close security gaps in the U.S. visa system, the White House said Monday.
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Ohio officials from taking legal action against Planned Parenthood to enforce fetal tissue disposal rules, and Republican state lawmakers proposed new regulations for such...
Pope Francis' comments that human activity is mostly to blame for global warming top a list of the most notable quotes of 2015, as compiled by a Yale Law School librarian.
The Charleston County School District will cut down on spending and monitor it more closely to help reduce an $18 million budget shortfall, Superintendent Gerrita Postlewait told the board Monday.
Seattle on Monday became the first city in the nation to allow drivers of ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to unionize over pay and working conditions.
After an indecisive day, stocks turned around in the last minutes of trading Monday and managed to end with modest gains.
The junk-bond market has something to really fear: fear itself.
The lawyer for an ex-Ohio treasure hunter facing new penalties for failing to discuss the whereabouts of 500 missing gold coins says his client is seriously ill and wants a hearing delayed for weeks.
A high school principal who fought cancer with the generosity of her students is now helping one of the teens through a similar fight.
A county judge on Monday acquitted a Chicago police commander accused of shoving his gun down a suspect's throat, outlining what she said were flaws in the state's case and stressing that it shouldn't be...
When deputies confronted a man carrying a handgun in a Los Angeles suburb, the fatal shooting that unfolded was notably different from other recent flashpoints in the debate over police use of force: The suspect was armed...
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating the fatal shooting of an armed man by deputies summoned to the scene after 911 calls reporting he was pointing the weapon at people and firing shots into the...
The latest on the trial of a Baltimore police officer who is charged with manslaughter in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who was injured in the back of a police transport van (all times local).
A storm that drenched California over the weekend has turned an Arizona town into one of the coldest cities in the lower 48 while making for a rainy commute in Phoenix, where it was colder than New York City.
Northern California authorities say a driver is lucky to be alive after a large metal beam pierced the windshield of his SUV while on a San Jose freeway.
The Saudi-led coalition supporting Yemen's internationally recognized government said Monday that a planned truce with the country's Shiite rebels has been postponed for 12 hours.
U.S. officials and human rights activists called on Americans to stop buying fish and shrimp tied to supply chains in Thailand, where The Associated Press has found slaves are forced to work in the seafood industry.