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In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]
The statement is meant to reassure the public that the companies will not seek a premature approval of vaccines under pressure from the Trump administration.
The country’s ambitions to become a global power, lift its poor and update its military have been set back by a sharp economic plunge, soaring infections and a widening sense of malaise.
Pandemic policies at tech companies have created a rift between parents offered more benefits and resentful workers who don’t have children.
As he has done with other aspects of the presidency, Donald J. Trump has redefined the practice in ways that have unsettled even some Republicans.
The intelligence wars over vaccine research have intensified as China and Russia expand their efforts to steal American work at both research institutes and companies.
In “levelheaded” Omaha, a protester was killed and, in the aftermath, people demanding an end to racial injustice set their sights on police budgets — and a diner with Robert E. Lee on the menu.
They’re the first animals known to turn food into extra limbs.
Several municipalities around New York have urged homeowners to limit the use of noisy landscaping equipment because their neighbors are home during the pandemic.
Quotation of the Day for Saturday, September 5, 2020.
The children’s book writer never caught on in America, partly because of his Communist Party ties, but the English-language release of his masterpiece could change that.
A pandemic returns the focus to what matters: education.
With a flea market, graduations and even a livestreamed country music concert, a Pennsylvania Drive-in became a safe gathering place.