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In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
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When the young Oracle heir entered the entertainment industry, no one expected much. Instead, he’s built the rarest of businesses — a thriving, all-audiences, independent studio.
With new opportunities and a different perspective as the pandemic eases, workers are choosing to leave their jobs in record numbers.
Shut out from mainstream medicine, some immigrants are buying expensive, unproven Covid therapies from “wellness” clinics or turning to the black market.
San Francisco’s dynastic threesome of Buster Posey, Brandon Crawford and Brandon Belt is enjoying every second (and every hug) of what could be its final ride together.
The city’s prosperity is heavily dependent on patterns of work and travel that may be irreversibly altered.
An ambitious news site, The New Bedford Light, has sprung up in an old New England whaling town to fill a void in coverage.
The country’s most significant collection of Shaker objects, out of public view for a decade, will relocate to an $18 million museum complex designed by Annabelle Selldorf.
Dick Cheney always saw doomsday threats from America’s enemies. His daughter is in a lonely battle against what both see as a danger to American democracy: Donald J. Trump.
Phoenix is facing a double heat and housing crisis that is falling hardest on people who have to suffer the sun.
A vote by the U.S. bishops was the most dramatic example of the conservative Catholic movement’s reach since Joseph R. Biden was elected. But the contingent had been gaining strength throughout the Trump era.
One of big tech’s top critics is now in charge of its regulation at the F.T.C.
Boxers have had trouble with qualifying events being canceled because of the coronavirus. That led to some abrupt rule changes that left many athletes with no ability to adjust.