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The White House is making an unusual argument as it resists advocates’ push for sign language interpretation at press briefings conducted by President Donald Trump and press secretary Karoline Leavitt ...

The Trump administration is arguing that requiring real-time American Sign Language interpretation of events like White House press briefings “would severely intrude on the President’s prerogative to ...

Neural networks first treat sentences like puzzles solved by word order, but once they read enough, a tipping point sends them diving into word meaning instead—an abrupt “phase transition” reminiscent ...

A man who killed a 16-year-old boy after blowing through a residential stop sign at nearly three times the speed limit later filed a false police report saying he was a victim of an armed carjacking, ...

Defendant Brian Busch listens as 6th Judicial District Judge Kevin McKeever speaks about the arguments presented by the state and the defense during his sentencing at the Johnson County Courthouse in ...

Section 1. Purpose. Unbeknownst to many Americans, two foreign-owned proxy advisors, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC, play a significant role in shaping the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

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