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Nation-world 'Polarization' is Merriam-Webster's 2024 word of the year By ANNA FURMAN Associated Press
Nation-world From Kamala to Chappell, here are some of the most mispronounced words of 2024 JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press
New Zealander studied for a year to win the Spanish world Scrabble title. He doesn’t speak Spanish A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-l…
Ho ho, oh no: Man sought by police goes down chimney and gets stuck A Massachusetts man trying to escape from police shimmied down the chimney. And got stuck.
