EDITOR’S NOTE: Due to an issue during printing, two Applause stories in the Thursday ... behind as they enter an underwater, musical cartoon world with screwball jokes and zany characters.

Instead scientists have found that clapping is contagious, and the length of an ovation is influenced by how other members of the crowd behave. They say it takes a few people to start clapping for ...

That joke has become less funny now that the President is positioning applause as a central issue of American politics. On Monday, before a crowd at a manufacturing plant, in Ohio, Donald Trump ...