Matthew Adams breaks down the difference between the active and passive voice, including which is better. Plus, Adams shares ...

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Gov. Gavin Newsom has become a familiar sight around Los Angeles since the firestorm that swept through the region last month ...

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Then came automatic translators like Google Translate and others. They learned by memorizing linguistic rules. For example, ...

We’ve never seen anything like this: a president who appears aligned with a Russian dictator in targeting the weak and the ...

Last week when I interviewed a law enforcement source for the cover story, there was one sentence he shared I could immediately relate to as a parent. Sgt. Jason Arras, commander of Southwest ...