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In 2024, the world population was approximately 8,161,972,572 people[†]
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Employees at its Washington State factory are said to have removed the door plug for further work before the plane was delivered to Alaska Airlines.
The Israel-Hamas conflict has produced a prodigious amount of disinformation, putting people who fact-check claims — especially those who live in the region — back on their heels.
Within a day of the death of Matthew Sachman, 19, on New York City subway tracks, so-called obituary pirates had flooded search results with false information.
The 2024 survey focuses less on American art, more on America itself at a raw, vulnerable time.
Not long ago, true crime storytellers had little in the way of first-person footage captured in real time to rely on. Now, as much of our daily lives are documented, the genre is transforming.
A romance between the pop star and Travis Kelce has dominated social media, but TV broadcasts are focusing on it less than many seem to think.
The increase in gross domestic product, while slower than in the previous period, showed the resilience of the recovery from the pandemic’s upheaval.
As owners remain reluctant to put their properties on the market, developers are rushing to build new homes to meet demand.
Civil rights lawyers and Democrats are sounding alarms about Mr. Musk’s claims about voting. The Biden campaign called his posts “profoundly irresponsible.”
The agency plans to scrutinize Microsoft, Amazon and Google for their investments in the A.I. start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic.
At Japan Society, “Nihon Buyo in the 21st Century,” a rare showcase in New York of this style of Japanese dance, forges a link between the past and present.
Peter Navarro was found guilty in September of criminal contempt of Congress, making him the second Trump aide to face penalties related to one of the chief investigations into Jan. 6.