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American journalists were showing the world the devastating effects of China’s botched response to the coronavirus. Now, many have been kicked out.
Masks, bandannas, dogs and distance make up the landscape of exercise in New York City.
Will parents and children be eager to return to team sports once the threat of the coronavirus outbreak has passed?
Fifty years on, Denis Hayes is still trying to keep the spirit that made Earth Day a world-changing event alive — and to refocus its energy on climate change.
Dropbox privately paid top hackers to find bugs in software by the videoconferencing company Zoom, then pressed it to fix them.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 15, 2020, covering April 20, 2020.
The Weeknd
Rod Wave
Lil Uzi Vert
Lil Baby
Sam Hunt
2020For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.[†]
The price of oil, or the oil price, generally refers to the spot price of a barrel of benchmark crude oil—a reference price for buyers and sellers of crude oil such as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), Brent Crude, Dubai Crude, OPEC Reference Basket, Tapis crude, Bonny Light, Urals oil, Isthmus, and Western Canadian Select (WCS). Oil prices are determined by global supply and demand, rather than any country's domestic production level.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]