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In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
More than a million people, including most in New Orleans, were without electricity, but the city’s levees held.
From a single food truck to its coming expansion to Los Angeles, Veracruz All Natural has won a huge following. Yet its owners are still striving to attract more Hispanic diners.
Dominique Lévy, Brett Gorvy, Amalia Dayan and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn will become LGDR, a one-stop shop for artists and collectors.
Quotation of the Day for Tuesday, August 31, 2021.
A century after museum collectors surveyed Colombia’s avian fauna, a new generation of researchers returns to see what remains, and what has changed.
The utility said on Monday that Hurricane Ida had put 216 substations and more than 2,000 miles of transmission lines out of service.
The United States may be the birthplace of basketball, but to make a career out of playing wheelchair hoops, athletes have had to move overseas.
Novak Djokovic and Ashleigh Barty feature on Arthur Ashe Stadium as a slew of young talent battles on the grounds of Flushing Meadows.
The three prisoners were to be charged for the first time, 18 years after their capture. Translation problems mean they wait one more day.
Keith Pinto was working at a beach on the Jersey Shore when lightning struck, killing him and injuring other lifeguards and beachgoers.
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on marriage vows and stolen library books.
Corrections that appeared in print on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021.