A simple sentence is built from the minimum of a subject and a main verb. It can be very short in length (but doesn't have to be): 'The angry dog barks.' It puts across one simple idea: 'Rebecca sang.

At the end of a term, a president often uses their power to fulfill a kind of "wish list" of actions. On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced he is commuting prison sentences for nearly 1,500 ...

Brunel University of London provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The final report of the Independent Sentencing Review has proposed the most significant reform of sentencing and ...

In a recent study published in Communications Psychology, researchers from NYU led by Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Tandon and Neurology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine Adeen ...

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About 2,000 homicides were committed in Santa Clara County since 1978, but only 15 killers — the worst of the worst — are under sentence of death for the murders they committed over that period.

It's hard to imagine a less contentious or more innocent word than "and." But how to interpret that simple conjunction has prompted a complicated legal fight that lands in the Supreme Court on Oct. 2, ...