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In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]
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Olaf Scholz wants to win back workers who defected to the populist far right. Success could make him a model for Social Democrats everywhere.
A new clinic focuses on patients left grappling with the aftermath of treatment in ways that are rarely appreciated by doctors.
Merck and Pfizer will soon debut prescription pills to treat Covid-19. And more drugs are on the way.
The drop in cash reserves has vast implications for the working class and could dampen consumer spending, a large share of economic activity.
The feature raises fresh questions about whether Tesla is compromising safety as it rushes to add new technologies.
Social-media fandom can help authors score book deals and bigger advances, but does it translate to how a new title will sell? Publishers are increasingly skeptical.
As the clean energy revolution upends the centuries-long lock of fossil fuels on the global economy, dealmakers and hustlers converge on the Fleuve Congo Hotel.
The climax of the cross-examination of Ms. Holmes, founder of the blood testing start-up Theranos, sends her fraud trial to its end stage.
About 1,400 have been on strike at four cereal plants since Oct. 5 over a dispute that has revolved around a two-tier compensation structure.
With the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Met will acquire and conserve thousands of photographs by James Van Der Zee, the virtuoso portraitist who brought to life the optimism of the Harlem Renaissance.
Gorman’s latest poetry collection, “Call Us What We Carry,” offers reverence and effervescence, gravity and impishness, and poems that are focused, pithy and playfully heretical.
The central bank has spent years guarding against economic blows. Now it is in inflation-fighting mode, even as a potential risk emerges.