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.

Darren Sharper, who pleaded guilty or no contest to raping women in four states, is projected to be released in 2028 Admitted serial rapist and former National Football League champion Darren Sharper ...

TikTok and Sundance Institute want to see more creators writing and producing microdramas and other short-form scripted series. They’re launching a microseries writing program through Sundance Collab, ...

The woman prosecutors have called the “mastermind” of a massive fraud scheme to steal hundreds of millions of dollars in government aid was sentenced to nearly 42 years in prison Thursday. Feeding Our ...

The founder of a Minnesota food program that bilked taxpayers out of $250 million has been slapped with 41 years in prison for a fraud that prosecutors say took food out of the mouths of hungry kids.

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - At 5:30 in the morning, the only light in the neighborhood is Tracy Nicholson’s. She’s getting ready for her first job in 10 years and doesn’t like being late. “Get my frozen ...