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Can simple words like "and" or "then" in online reviews help health care providers learn about their patients' experiences? New research shows they can, with a new analysis showing that the most ...

Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana told Fox News host Harris Faulkner Thursday that former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey were “not ethical people” while ...

Diccon Hyatt is an experienced financial and economics reporter who has covered the pandemic-era economy in hundreds of stories over the past two years. He's written hundreds of stories breaking down ...

In 1884 the anthropologist Franz Boas returned from Baffin Island with a discovery that would kick off decades of linguistic wrangling: by his count, the local Inuit language had four words for snow, ...

Five times in the course of the past year, the world’s leading hunger monitor warned that Gaza could be teetering on the precipice of famine. Each time, the watchdog stopped short of concluding one ...