I don’t remember when I first learned about single quotation marks, but I have a vague memory of assuming they were as useful as quotation marks, or close to it. Sometimes you quote someone. Sometimes ...

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Weather forecasters at the National Weather Service, The Weather Channel and this very news organization had a name for the kind of storm that upended daily life for residents of the Northeast US this ...

It may have seemed unthinkable a decade ago, but, for the first time, podcasts have surpassed over-the-air radio in daily spoken-word audio time in the US, according to new Edison Research Share of ...

BBC producers overseeing coverage of the Bafta film awards say they did not hear a racial slur it mistakenly broadcast on BBC One, as the corporation apologised for ...

Sinners production designer Hannah Beachler has criticized Alan Cumming’s on-stage apology after the N-word was shouted by a Tourette’s campaigner during the BAFTA Film Awards. Cumming briefly paused ...

Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo had the N-word shouted at them while presenting an award at the BAFTAs on Sunday. The “Sinners” stars were presenting the award for best visual effects to “Avatar: ...

The NBA’s old-school era was legendary for its physicality, its grit, and its trash talk. But what Vernon Maxwell confirmed on “All the Smoke” podcast goes far beyond anything you’d expect — even from ...