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In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
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The tennis superstar is guest-editing Racquet magazine and has written a cover essay for Time. What’s left for traditional sports journalism?
When our columnist asked how the Olympics could be revamped, readers responded with calls to focus on the competition and do away with the corruption and excess that have bloated the Games.
Burn bans, flashlight campfires, extreme heat and stronger rainstorms: Today’s campers are experiencing their summer fun against the backdrop of climate change.
As scientists find more tattoos on preserved remains from Indigenous cultures, artists living today are drawing from them to revive cultural traditions.
After targeting the ride-hailing platform days after its I.P.O., regulators on Monday moved against more companies that had recently been listed on Wall Street.
The World Bank said the financial crisis could rank among the world’s three worst since the mid-1800s. The currency has lost more than 90 percent of its value and unemployment has skyrocketed.
New initiatives aim to broaden the pool of stage managers of color and introduce antiracist practices into graduate training.
Representative Paul Gosar’s association with the white nationalist Nick Fuentes is the most vivid example of the Republican Party’s growing acceptance of extremism.
In Carolyn Ferrell’s “Dear Miss Metropolitan,” three young girls are kidnapped and kept in a decaying house in Queens for a decade.
Speaking publicly for the first time, these Egyptian women say they were sexually abused during invasive searches and medical exams by government authorities.
A California family that lost a 15-year-old boy when a Tesla hit its pickup truck is suing the company, claiming its Autopilot system was partly responsible.
It’s among the wettest places on the planet, but shifts in rainfall, invasive grasses and a housing shortage are driving a wildfire spike on the islands.