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In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
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A moratorium on evictions did little to address the bigger problem: The country is running out of affordable places for people to live.
More than 20 states have introduced legislation restricting lessons on racism and other so-called “divisive concepts.”
Amazon’s experimental approach to product design can hurt your wallet and the environment. Why does it need our help to figure out what it’s doing?
The birthrate is falling for American women in their 20s, especially in places where the local economy is booming.
The Federal Reserve left rates near zero, but it said it would tiptoe closer to reducing its mass bond purchases, among other optimistic tweaks.
The Italian rock band Maneskin is a hit on the charts, and its members want to become a rare long-term Eurovision success story.
The two sides have traded accusations about whether political motivations are keeping the Taiwanese people from receiving immunizations amid the island’s first major Covid-19 outbreak.
The movie’s choreographic team, led by Christopher Scott, gets raw and real with dancers — so many! — who give in to thrilling perpetual motion.
With paintings of friends and family members in a Los Angeles biennial, the artist Brandon D. Landers is having his breakout moment. “I’m not totally prepared,” he says.
Emergent BioSolutions was awarded a $628 million federal contract with no competitive bidding. Top executives received big bonuses while factories mostly sat idle and tens of millions of Covid-19 doses were thrown away.
The embattled lingerie giant is attempting the most extreme brand turnaround in recent memory: an effort to redefine not just itself but also the very idea of what “sexy” is.
Lina Khan is the most progressive chair of the Federal Trade Commission in at least a generation.