After a 30-year run, Microsoft has discontinued WordPad, leaving fans of this simple word processor upset. Fortunately, there are solid alternatives.

Michael Kosta argued that right-wing outlets covering the State Department switch-up may be "suffering from an outrage ...

And if you’re angry about it, that just proves the point. By Jennifer Schuessler Over the past few months, Jennifer Lawrence, World Series fans and right-wing influencers have all confessed to it. And ...

American diplomats were told to raise U.S. concerns about “violent crimes associated with people of a migration background.” By Edward Wong and Hamed Aleaziz Reporting from Washington Secretary of ...

UNC Health will have a new CEO, the UNC System announced Thursday. Dr. Cristy Page will officially begin the roles as UNC Health's CEO, the dean of the UNC School of Medicine and as vice chancellor ...

(OSV News) — A new Vatican document on Mary affirms a Scripture-based understanding of her person and her pivotal role in salvation history, according to several experts — although some lament the ...

Microsoft announced new agents for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. They can help to shrink the gap between ideation and production. Other Copilot updates include an expanded Voice mode. In the era of AI ...

It’s a love story. The term “parasocial” has just been named Cambridge Dictionary’s 2025 word of the year — and its popularity was partly inspired by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement. The ...

Barbara Wallraff is a writer and editor in Cambridge. She writes The Wordshop on Substack. The challenge last time was to find a word for “those privileged neologisms that ‘stick’ and become part of ...

Here's some news for the word nerds out there. Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher, is releasing a hefty, new Collegiate edition for the first time in 22 years. “So, the ...

Microsoft announced major updates to Copilot and its Microsoft 365 apps at its Ignite conference this morning. Most of the new features will be available for customers with Microsoft 365 Copilot ...