Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday that he was “optimistic” the Senate could vote to reopen the government by the end of the week if lawmakers make progress over the next couple days.

Kirkland appeared in more than 200 film and television projects throughout her six-decade career, in addition to numerous theatrical performances, but she ran into financial issues toward the end of her life.

A friend has recently become a Granda and his anxiety about the world the gurgling infant will grow up in has made him even more conscious that the end is nigh-er than we ever imagined.

The definition of flourishing we have used at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard is “the relative attainment of a state in which all aspects of a person’s life are good, including the contexts in which that person lives.” Understood thus ...