The Supreme Court has tossed out the murder conviction and death sentence of Oklahoma's Richard Glossip, ordering a new trial. Glossip was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1997 killing in ...

Language experts point out that certain sentence constructs using 'because' or 'why' can veer off into questionable ...

Hyderabad: A division bench of Telangana high court, comprising acting Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Renuka Yara, ...

Pat King, an organizer in the convoy protest that overwhelmed Ottawa’s downtown in 2022, has been sentenced to three months of house arrest by a judge who said the 10-year sentence the Crown ...

One of the enemies of effective communication is the run-on sentence. Like ambiguity and dangling modifiers, it hampers understanding and makes speech and writing ugly. You should, therefore, beware ...

Other interjections serve as what some linguists call “continuers,” such as mm-hmm — signals from the listener that they’re ...

Lawmakers discussed the limitations of home rule municipalities and the Equal Protection Clause during a lengthy committee ...

The practice of allowing parents to register a newborn for a Social Security number at a hospital or other birthing site, called the Enumeration at Birth program, has been common for decades.

A Toronto police constable who concocted a multi-participant scheme to defraud multiple insurance companies by staging vehicle thefts and accidents has received a conditional sentence of two years ...

Utterances like um, wow and mm-hmm used to be dismissed as irrelevant linguistic detritus. But some linguists now think they play an essential role in regulating conversations, and may be the hardest ...

The scheme is only meant for residential purposes. A preliminary enumeration has been carried out with regard to the encroachments. After collecting application forms from the prospective ...