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It started as a banner year for female candidates. More ran in party primaries than ever before, especially Republicans. Some posted big victories Tuesday. But for the first time since the 1970s, the total number of women in the new Congress will likely drop.

Sometimes our eyes are bigger than our baking skills. Reviewer T. Susan Chang recommends three cookbooks with pictures that indulge our senses while sparing our waistlines. Do you have a favorite cookbook? Let us know in the comments.

Media outlets are full of stories about whether women can "have it all." After becoming a mother, Curtis Sittenfeld came to appreciate novels and memoirs that look beyond those headlines to celebrate the difficult, messy, delightful juggling act of parenthood. She shares three of her favorites.

Most of the country's other big unions endorsed President Biden in the earliest days of his reelection campaign. But the United Auto Workers held back until today.

X recently claimed to support the press advocacy group Reporters Without Borders — which in response called X "a haven for disinformation."

Thousands of Coptic Christians marched through central Cairo on Tuesday to demand justice for the more than two dozen Copts who were killed a year ago when army units moved in to stop their protest.

At a time when jazz was not widely seen in higher education, the alto saxophonist brought the wisdom learned on the bandstand to the classroom.

Heavy rain and melting snowpacks brought floods to the Pacific Northwest and prompted officials to call for evacuations. The area hadn't seen floodwaters that high in a quarter century.

Many women at Hillary Clinton's alma mater of Wellesley College are hoping to see the Democratic nominee break the ultimate glass ceiling Tuesday night in becoming the first woman elected president in the U.S.

The auto industry is grappling with a shortage of computer chips that is forcing companies to cut back production of some vehicles. Some new cars, already in short supply, might get harder to find.