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In 2023, the world population was approximately 8,091,734,930 people[†]
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Federal Reserve officials raised interest rates by a quarter-point while they noted that bank turmoil could help slow the economy.
In “Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs,” Kerry Howley explores how the erosion of privacy has fueled conspiracy theories and the national security state.
He once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump. Now, he’s hoping to help prosecutors put him away.
The market hadn’t fully rebounded from the pandemic. Some worry that another slowdown could add to fears of a recession.
After criticizing A.I. companies for liberal bias, programmers started envisioning right-wing alternatives, making chatbots a new front in the culture wars.
Instead of focusing on a solution to the war in Ukraine, the Chinese leader’s visit to Moscow reinforced China and Russia’s shared opposition to American dominance.
Both parents and the striking school district employees are on the same side of the economic divide in one of the nation’s most expensive cities.
Fill-ins for Trevor Noah have shown how exciting the lack of a permanent replacement could be. It’s an option with an illustrious history in television.
By analyzing seven samples of hair said to have come from Ludwig van Beethoven, researchers debunked myths about the revered composer while raising new questions about his life and death.
For decades, new plants have been blocked by powerful local interests, the owners of hot spring resorts, that say the sites threaten a centuries-old tradition.
The Borealis experimental music festival in Norway has become a space for lively exploration in a famously self-serious field.
Proposals for more scrutiny of the financial sector are meeting resistance from industry and Congress.