With the winner’s haul of $52,500 added to his second-place prize of $25,000, Faizan increased his bee earnings to $77,500.

After flubbing a chance to win earlier in Thursday’s Scripps National Spelling Bee final, the 13-year-old from the Dallas ...

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Faizan Zaki’s enthusiasm for spelling nearly got the better of him. Ultimately, his joyful approach ...

Faizan has been spelling for more than half his life. He competed in the 2019 bee as a seven-year-old, getting in through a wild-card program that has since been discontinued. He qualified again ...