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In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
Republicans face a disturbing prospect: that Wednesday’s Trump-inspired violence could linger for decades as a stain on the party.
The mob that rampaged the halls of Congress included infamous white supremacists and conspiracy theorists.
The White House was propelled deeper into crisis as officials resigned in protest and prominent Republicans broke with the president after he incited a mob that assaulted Congress.
Andrea Pitzer’s new book resurrects the story of William Barents’s 16th-century expeditions to the Arctic.
The author of “The Power Broker” and a multivolume biography of L.B.J. is giving awed archivists — and New York — access to more than 50 years of research.
Many people want a pandemic baby, but some sperm banks are running low. So women are joining unregulated Facebook groups to find willing donors, no middleman required.
Safe houses and other structures used in the fight against slavery were often clandestine, and survivors today can be difficult to document. But there’s a 19th-century house in Washington Heights …
Marian Goodman Gallery and MoMA are reviving interest in multiples — art produced in affordable editions for the ’60s middle-class. Now, some artists are taking up the cause.
Among the reasons for optimism: the prospect of widespread vaccination, and a Congress more open to stimulus spending.
A jarring juxtaposition is forcing a 244-year-old nation to contend with its original conundrum: Whose democracy is it?
A small group of lenders that focus on underserved borrowers will get priority when the Paycheck Protection Program resumes.
A site called Dlive, where rioters broadcast from the Capitol, is benefiting from the growing exodus of right-wing users from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.