Current and former police leaders, citing rising threats of violence, are expressing alarm over a“disturbing rise in rhetoric” in the U.S. and calling for the criminal prosecution of “individuals, ...

Out of all the words you know, which ones don’t have vowels? Except for a short “hm” or “Shhh!” probably not many, even if you’re thinking of a language other than English. To document these rare ...

Taylor Swift talks about her music in terms of eras. A new University of Minnesota study found the way she speaks has also changed over the course of her career.

Rumor – The alleged Israeli ambassador to the UN, Miriam Novak, supposedly delivered a “breathtaking” speech at the UN General Assembly in 2025.

To explore how dialects change over time, you need a single speaker who's lived in different regions and has been recorded a lot. Taylor Swift fits the bill.

US President Donald Trump demanded an investigation Wednesday into what he called “triple sabotage” after an escalator, teleprompter and sound system ...

The researchers suggest that these changes reflect Swift’s desire to be part of those communities. “I was one of those people who thought of dialects mainly as reflecting where you come from, but they ...

Day-one fans of Taylor Swift know that the pop superstar has come a long way since launching her music career as a country singer — and that evolution is apparent in her dialect, according to speech ...

Researchers point to “intonation units,” or IUs, as the hidden scaffolding of human conversation. These are stretches of speech shaped by subtle shifts in pitch, loudness, and timing, often heard as ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

The popular host, who began his career in radio and launched ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ in 2003, has been critical of the Republican leader during both his terms in office ...