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In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]
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Behind-the-scenes lobbying heightens in this next phase of a divide over digital security that erupted when Apple refused to help unlock an iPhone used in a mass shooting.
Jamie Horowitz, the ousted executive of the “Today” show, believes that his strategy of opinion-based programming will make FS1 a more serious rival to ESPN.
Green Berets’ descriptions of a battle with the Taliban in Kunduz, where an airstrike killed 42 people at a hospital, reflected the blurry parameters of the American mission.
William C. Dudley of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York foresees enough growth for the Fed to resume slowly raising its benchmark interest rate.
Energy experts do not expect a quick or easy change in policy after the ouster of Ali al-Naimi as minister over the weekend.
Lenders are drawing criticism for marketing high-interest loans to short-of-cash former N.F.L. players who may receive settlement payouts for suffering brain injuries.
Plummeting oil prices have set off an economic unraveling and collective anger in a country that is among the world’s top oil producers.
Gov. Pat McCrory and the Justice Department are clashing over transgender rights after the department said that the state had violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with its law on bathroom access.
Control of the city’s schools is expected to return to a locally elected school board for the first time since Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
A former lover’s challenge to the media titan’s mental competency was rejected by a judge in a case that had drawn wide attention on Wall Street and in Hollywood.
Chickpea water has become a sensation as a frothy egg substitute in mousses, meringues and mayonnaise.
Politicians scrambled to determine how the decision by the new speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress might affect President Dilma Rousseff’s fate.