This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Scott Simon. All right, class. Settle down now. Stop fidgeting. Sit up straight, eyes forward, all eyes on the blackboard. Today we're going to diagram ...

In English, our sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. The nice part about this type of structure is that it lets your reader easily know who is doing the ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

“It’s very upsetting, but very unsurprising,” Roher tells Deadline. “The regime has taken the approach of what I like to call ‘boiling the frog.’ Instead of just throwing a life sentence at Navalny ...

Adnan Syed, the accused murderer who became the subject of the widely popular podcast “Serial,” has had his sentence for the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee reduced to time served. Baltimore City Circuit ...

TEXARKANA, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court has upheld the 99-year prison sentence given to a mortician who was the subject of the 2011 film “Bernie.” The 6th Texas Court of Appeals in Texarkana on ...

SYDNEY, Dec 2 (Reuters) - An Australian former high school teacher, who was the subject of the hit podcast "The Teacher's Pet", was sentenced on Friday to 24 years in jail for murdering his wife 40 ...

Baltimore prosecutors asked a Maryland magistrate to vacate the judgment Monday afternoon in the case of Adnan Syed, whose decades-old murder conviction garnered renewed interest after it was featured ...

A man convicted of rape and murder when he was a teenager, and whose story was documented in the 2015 Netflix series “Making a Murderer,” asked Wisconsin’s governor for a pardon or commutation of his ...