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In 2023, the world population was approximately 8,091,734,930 people[†]
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The chain’s situation shows the complicated legal and reputational landscape that it and its competitors must navigate in the post-Roe era.
The new technology could upend many online businesses. But for companies that figure out how to work with it, A.I. could be a boon.
A Black woman has never been a governor, and only two have been senators. Despite progress at lower levels of government, and one boundary-breaking vice president, familiar barriers are slow to fall.
Frank Carone, who stepped down as Mayor Eric Adams’s chief of staff in December, has found work with two commercial real estate titans, including one seeking a casino.
Big tech companies have long been willing to fund efforts with no obvious payoff. But those groups have been hit hard in recent layoffs.
After severing business ties with the rapper Ye, Adidas said it would cut its dividend and declared 2023 a “transition year.”
The breakthrough could one day transform technologies that use electric energy, but it comes from a team facing doubts after a retracted paper on superconductors.
The review, undertaken after a specialized unit killed Breonna Taylor in a botched raid in 2020, paints a damning portrait of a department in crisis.
Jerome H. Powell, the Fed chair, opened the door to a more aggressive policy path — but emphasized that it depended on incoming data.
When Alex Murdaugh was convicted of murdering his wife and son, some South Carolinians saw the verdict as a step toward dismantling a system of power “based on who you know.”
After 20 years, Adam D. Weinberg will step down as leader in the fall. Scott Rothkopf, his deputy, will succeed him.
In Keen Company’s revival of Lynn Nottage’s 1995 play, a Black girl comes of age amid the churn of social change in midcentury Brooklyn.