Think saying um and uh makes you sound unprepared? These tiny hesitation words play an important role in how we think, speak, and communicate.

Protestors hold up signs with faces of the Prairieland defendants outside of the Eldon B. Mahon U.S. Courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Juan Figueroa/The Dallas Morning News via ...

Tracie A. Harbison texted an acquaintance, asking, “U need a half of confetti?” When he replied yes, the two arranged to meet. But Harbison wasn’t delivering party supplies. According to a federal ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to playwright Kenn Adams about his formula for creating or analyzing stories called the Story Spine.

No AI tool could have written The Declaration of Independence because it required human intuition, creativity, and ...

AI detection tools promised a clean solution to the internet's growing slop problem. What they've delivered is a coin flip.

Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism. Earlier this year, the company released an 84-page document titled Claude’s “constitution ...

Aimee Bock, convicted for leading a $242 million pandemic relief fraud scheme known as Feeding Our Future, has been sentenced to 500 months — over 41 years — in prison. “This was a vortex of fraud, ...

Michael Adam Rhynehardt, 43, makes a first appearance in December in Clark County Superior Court in connection with a hit-and-run crash involving a pedestrian. Rhynehardt pleaded guilty and was ...

PINEDALE — The Daniel man who brought global outrage to Sublette County by parading an injured and bound wild wolf around the Green River Bar was sentenced Wednesday for a single count of felony ...

Lawyers for Sean “Diddy” Combs were back in federal court on Thursday to appeal his prison sentence for his conviction on two prostitution-related charges. Combs, 56, is currently serving more than ...