After narrowly approving a stopgap funding bill to end the government shutdown last night, the House of Representatives adjourned for the remainder of the week – marking one full day in session after ...

Ms. Hanauer is the author of three novels and two essay anthologies. She is working on a novel about single women and love. She and her husband, Daniel Jones, founded The Times’s Modern Love column.

Will a human ever celebrate a 150th birthday? You bet, says Stephen Austad, a biology of ageing researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Austad is so sure that life expectancy is poised ...

Correction: The description and transcript for this story have been updated to reflect that it's been more than two years since the World Health Organization ended its COVID-19 public health emergency ...