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In 2022, the world population was approximately 8,021,407,192 people[†]
Many police chiefs say staffing levels have not rebounded from a wave of resignations that started with the pandemic and the 2020 unrest.
A partisan cell in Kherson spied on, undermined and even hunted down Russian soldiers. Now that Vladimir V. Putin’s forces are gone, people feel free to talk — and to brag a little.
The high cost of natural gas and electricity is prompting many to prepare for outages and shortages. For some, it’s been a way of life for years.
Literacy lessons are embedded in every academic class. Even in biology.
The Times’s decades-long collection of visitors’ signatures reveals an eclectic range of guests, including presidents, civil rights activists and the composer of “Cats.”
Quotation of the Day for Sunday, December 25, 2022.
Mr. Musk said that he would resign as Twitter’s chief executive once he found a successor “foolish enough to take the job.” YouTube reaches deal for the rights to stream N.F.L.’s Sunday Ticket games. And Mark Zuckerberg appears in court in an antitrust hearing.
For a quarter of a century — holidays included — Bill Sokol’s drawings injected a note of whimsy into the stolid New York Times.
Metropolitan Diary readers are scattered outside the New York City area and as far away as India and Australia.
The author didn’t feel a strong connection to New York City when she began illustrating Metropolitan Diary. Now that she’s leaving, the bond is powerful.
A railway bridge with a shallow underpass is bashed into by vehicles with startling regularity, causing mostly embarrassment, but sending cargo — flowers, bicycles, eggs and potatoes — flying onto the roadway.