North Carolina came oh-so-close to winning its first conference game and earning a signature win for first-year coach Bill Belichick, but came up just short—literally. The Tar Heels lost a ...

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NATO allies are divided over whether the alliance should make it a policy to shoot down Russian jets that violate NATO’s airspace, with some countries including the US, Poland and Baltic nations ...

From "yeet" to "social distancing," new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these neologisms—newly coined terms—gain acceptance and become part of mainstream ...

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President Trump has denied he is considering firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, but his administration has ramped up its criticism of the central bank’s $2.5 billion office renovation. WSJ’s ...

Adam Aleksic has somehow managed to make linguistics cool. His rapid-fire videos have attracted an audience of millions across the social media universe. A Harvard graduate with a linguistics degree, ...

A major pulp mill in British Columbia has been fined after racking up nearly two dozen air pollution violations in less than two years. Domtar's mill in Skookumchuck, formerly owned by Paper ...

After its release in late 2022, ChatGPT reached 100 million users in just two months, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. Since then the artificial intelligence (AI) tool ...

Word already displays the number of words in a document in its status bar for all versions. This number appears at the bottom, second to the right after the number of pages in the document. If you ...