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In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
The State Department is frantically trying to track down U.S. citizens. Tens of thousands of Afghan allies will all but certainly be left behind.
A mining company’s proposal has largely been embraced locally as an economic stimulus, but climate concerns may shelve the idea.
A first-of-its-kind study links wildfires to skin problems. Here’s what you need to know.
Charging unvaccinated workers more for health coverage may seem more appealing than a mandate but could be harder to carry out.
Pakistan, nominally a U.S. partner in the war, was the Afghan Taliban’s main patron, and sees the Taliban’s victory as its own. But now what does it do with its prize?
The state security ministry is recruiting from a vast pool of private-sector hackers who often have their own agendas and sometimes use their access for commercial cybercrime, experts say.
On “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power,” the 26-year-old musician enlists a longtime role model and takes one step back from confessionals.
The British actor and soccer non-fan scored his first Emmy nomination playing a sharp soccer coach in the hit Apple TV+ comedy.
This season, Beach Sessions has just one dance: “Repose,” a meditative, durational work by Moriah Evans.
To ease an affordability crisis, the Legislature voted to open suburbs to development, allowing two-units on lots long reserved for single-family homes.
Choices about building rules, insurance programs, flood maps and more put residents at higher risk, according to climate and disaster experts.
Bombers struck a huge crowd outside the airport, killing at least 60 Afghan civilians in the waning days of the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan.