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When the BBC's Matthew Anderson tweeted this week the rules the English language has for the order in which adjectives should appear before a noun, he was retweeted 47,000 times. He says foreigners struggle with this concept, but native speakers do it naturally. The quote comes from a book called, The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase, by Mark Forsyth.

Responding to claims of discrimination against people of color, Airbnb has agreed to change the way it runs the home rental marketplace.

A decades-long study of individual wage earnings ranks Columbus poorly. Numbers show the city ranks last among major Ohio cities in upward mobility from…

As the controversy over the firing of OSU’s marching band director continues, records indicate the university knew about hazing and questionable…

Five-term incumbent Alexander Lukashenko is declared the winner. Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya rejects the results.

In a new three-part special, NPR examines how George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery became part of a rallying cry that has led the U.S. to confront the racism of its past and present.

The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections has already received a surge of absentee ballot applications for the Nov. 3 election, as more voters than usual move to make their decisions remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. As of last week, the board had processed 40,000 ballot applications, Director Anthony Perlatti told ideastream Monday.

Joining similar agencies around the country, including in Hamilton County , Sanitation District No. 1 of Northern Kentucky (SD1) is now testing local...

Akashic Books' Noir series visits Baghdad for its latest installment, and the talented writers collected here manage to wrest compelling noir from a place that's plenty dark already.

A car runs into a wooden utility pole, the power company puts up a new pole, but the old one seems to stay there for weeks, annoying neighbors.