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In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
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Trying to find another avenue to push his baseless election claims, Donald Trump considered installing a loyalist.
The plan would put off the historic proceeding until Feb. 9, giving former President Donald J. Trump time to prepare his defense and allowing President Biden to fill his cabinet and begin work on his agenda.
Jonathan Braun’s 10-year sentence for running a drug ring was commuted by the departing president. The White House did not mention that he faces separate accusations of violence and threats.
Robert Gottlieb considers the celebrated Yale critic on the occasion of his last, posthumously published book, “The Bright Book of Life,” which revisits the novels that inspired his passion and awe.
Senator Raphael Warnock was sworn in this week as Georgia’s first Black senator, and he arrived with a canny canine assist.
A failure to distribute the Covid-19 vaccine in poor nations will worsen economic damage, with half the costs borne by wealthy countries, new research shows.
“Getting the vaccine is the hottest thing you could be doing on a dating app right now,” said a spokesman for OKCupid.
Most colleges and universities now use a “merit” aid strategy to solicit teenagers. Your eighth grader probably ought to know how it works.
Over five decades, he chatted with an estimated 50,000 people from all walks of life, from presidents and pundits to swindlers and U.F.O. “experts.”
Few foreigners welcomed President Biden’s election victory as enthusiastically as the tens of thousands of Muslims who have been locked out of the United States for the past four years.
Only two presidents before him have used their first weeks in office to push for equality with the same force, according to one historian.
Perhaps nowhere else in America can the unequal toll of the virus be felt more dramatically. Suburban sprawl and freeways demarcate the neighborhoods of the haves and the have-nots.