A new bill at the Tennessee State Capitol is aimed at making it easier for prosecutors to seek the death penalty against child rapists. Lawmakers said it builds on a law passed just last year, one ...

Although Colorado's second-highest court has issued multiple decisions in recent months upholding a revised definition of ...

In Definition Detective, we give you an obscure word with four possible definitions. Only one is correct-the other three we made up. Can you identify the real meaning from the fakes? Try Other ...

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Af-ford-a-bil-i-ty. I just found it on my laptop’s built-in dictionary! I was shocked to see that “hoax” was not referenced in the definition. Turns out it’s defined as “the ability to afford; ...

Most project briefs center on the what—the task, the deliverable, the output. But without a shared understanding of why we’re ...

PEOPLE confirms In-N-Out Burger has removed the number "67" from its ticket order system amid the viral "6-7" trend. The West ...

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The Trump administration is proposing changes to the definition of what bodies of water are considered “the waters of the ...

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The Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year is “rage bait,” which the editors define as “online content deliberately designed to ...

New experiments raise important questions about what it means to die. n December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked ...