Like the fissionable atom, punctuation marks are wee items capable of causing a tremendous release of energy. Passionate disagreement over the use of exclamation points is so familiar that a “Seinfeld ...

There's one punctuation mark Gen Z wants you to stop using. Here's what it is—and why it's falling out of favor.

No piece of punctuation, though, stirs people up more than the humble semicolon. Too demure to be a colon but more assertive than a comma, the semicolon was introduced in 1494 by Venetian printer and ...

Ross explained that doctors removed 7 inches of his colon following the diagnosis. “Now I have a semicolon,” he joked during the segment. He also recalled the moment his oncologist broke the news ...

Sports reporter Coen Lammers joins us from Washington DC and the inaugural FIFA Club World Cup, a new tournament with a $1 billion prize purse making it one of the richest sports events in the world.

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