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In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
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What was supposed to be a new, relatively normal year has become a politicized, bewildering experience for many parents, students and educators.
In M.L.B.’s Beat the Streak game, fans build virtual lineups in hopes of topping Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak. After 20 years, no one has won.
Marissa Meizz became a TikTok meme after her friends excluded her from a birthday party. She decided to do something about it.
In Kunduz, the new insurgent leaders said they had no quarrel with the people. But residents say they soon began instilling fear.
Barrie Kosky’s new production for the Berliner Ensemble, at the theater where the famous work premiered, knows where to break the rules.
The jump in benefits, the biggest in the program’s history, comes after a revision of the initiative’s nutrition standards that supporters say will reduce hunger and better reflect how Americans eat.
A day after a magnitude-7.2 earthquake killed an estimated 1,300 people in western Haiti, the country, already suffering from a dire lack of doctors, struggled to help the many wounded.
The 20-time Grand Slam champion will miss the U.S. Open and undergo his fourth knee surgery since 2016. He will be on crutches and off the tennis court “for many months.”
Red Ventures has turned very specific advice into very big business.
President Biden will go down in history, fairly or unfairly, as the president who presided over a humiliating final act in the American experiment in Afghanistan.
The Times’s Visual Investigations team analyzed more than 3,000 videos to document, moment by moment, the terror of the Capitol riot.
The next step for the $1 trillion bipartisan bill is the House. And its future there is not guaranteed.