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GregBarlow

Merriam-Webster chose “slop” as its 2025 Word of the Year to capture a surge in use of the term to describe low-quality digital material produced at scale by AI. Greg Barlow said the spike in searches reflects annoyance...

JBPritzker

JB Pritzker signed the Medical Aid in Dying Act, making Illinois the 12th US jurisdiction to permit terminally ill patients, with less than six months to live, to request and self-administer life-ending medication. The...