The federal government remains open for business. That's because Congress managed to avoid a government shutdown on Friday that would have hit families right before the holidays.

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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with American Medical Association President Bruce Scott about how physicians and patients are burdened by insurance companies' systems of prior authorization.

Biden commutes the sentences of 3,740 people on federal death row. NIH invests $300 million to research treatments for long COVID. Officials in Lebanon assess war's damage to cultural heritage sites.

Much of the NIH-funded research on long COVID has focused on observing and understanding the disease. Some patients and doctors say the research should pivot toward finding new treatments and drugs.