Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...

Patriots coach Mike Vrabel has New England in the best shape it's been since winning its last Lombardi Trophy. / Mitch Stringer-Imagn Images The Patriots found out something about themselves in ...

The New York Giants host the Minnesota Vikings at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, this Sunday at 1:00 p.m. ET. Neither the Giants nor the Vikings are headed to the playoffs this year, ...

When I turned 13, I entered a part of the life cycle cherished by all Jewish kids and dreaded by their parents. This was the year of bar and bat mitzvahs—my own, but also those of friends, relatives, ...

An ogham stone in Cornwall, England BabelStone via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 Researchers say they are compiling the first-ever dictionary of ancient Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.

In an 18-minute address, President Trump said the economy was booming despite the public’s consistent concerns about prices. Here are six takeaways from the speech. By David E. Sanger David E. Sanger ...

Two Las Vegas men who appeared to intentionally mow down a bike-riding retired police chief will spend decades behind bars over the filmed crime spree — despite one of the monsters boasting during his ...

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words. Russia is doing this. They've published a ...

FromSoftware has deployed a new patch across all platforms for Elden Ring: Nightreign that brings more Deep of the Night content for players of the The Forsaken Hollows DLC, as well as new features, ...

George Orwell's novel "1984" features a government that changes the language so that people can only say accepted things. It turns out that something like this is happening in reality. STEVE INSKEEP, ...