There’s an art and a science to picking a good starting word for Wordle. Here are my suggestions for the best starters—and ...

Infant-directed speech - often referred to as ‘ baby talk ’ - helps infants learn the sounds of their language - well before they speak their first words, say scientists. Researchers examined if the ...

Houston Texans third-year quarterback C.J. Stroud endured a nightmare outing during Sunday's divisional-round playoff game at the New England Patriots, as he tossed four interceptions over the contest ...

Siân Thomas and Tim McInnerny are the readers in a programme marking fifty years since Agatha Christie's death, aged 85, on January 12 1976. In her autobiography, Agatha Christie describes practicing ...

The Fellowship of the Ring may be a huge success for Peter Jackson, but what would Tolkien have thought of it, asked this feature from our February 2002 issue.

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. As the Illinois governor, J. B. Pritzker, begins a run for a third term and ...

Michael Rosen goes on an alphabetical odyssey with linguist Dr Danny Bate, author of the book 'Why Q needs U: A History of Our Letters and how We Use Them'. From A through to Z, where did all our ...

Jessie J has paid a heartbreaking tribute to her late close pal and bodyguard Dave on the anniversary of his death. The singer, 37, marked the seventh anniversary of his suicide on Instagram on Monday ...

UPDATE: This story was updated Monday with comments from Gov. Phil Murphy’s office. Parole reform legislation introduced this month in the state legislature would emphasize rehabilitation while ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot “to make us a better ...