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The Senate returns to work after a week off. It has a lot on its plate, with judicial nominations and the choice of John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador topping the to-do list. Observers are also watching to see whether the body will start getting its business done, or continue squabbling.

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's role in leaking the name of CIA operative, Valerie Plame remains undefined. Reports describe Rove as tacitly confirming her identity to a reporter before the story was published. A federal grand jury investigation is continuing.

The U.S. military recently has redesigned the checkpoint at the entrance to Baghdad's Green Zone to address security issues. Before, reporters had to walk to the checkpoint, exposed to snipers and kidnappers. When they got close, they risked being shot at by U.S. and Iraqi soldiers.

House Republicans, led by Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL) act on their longstanding dissatisfaction with the United Nations. Following their lead, the House votes cut in half the U.S. contribution that sustains the international organization and its worldwide activities. There is no companion bill in the Senate.

Conductor Marin Alsop recognizes the challenging aspects of Bela Bartok's music. But after presiding over a Bartok festival this spring, she came to a deeper understanding of the Hungarian composer's music, which she describes as a major influence on her own career.

Concern is growing over damage to a Ukrainian nuclear facility seized by Russians in March, which is reportedly currently under bombardment. Ukraine is seeking an international mission to the plant.

Author Sherry Turkle is concerned that we are outsourcing too many of our conversations to screens and robots. "Face to face conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do," she says.

On her second album, Sprinter, Torres confronts the problem of confession head-on and proceeds to annihilate its boundaries.

Now 17 years and seven albums into its existence, Luminiferous reaffirms High On Fire's consistent mastery of heavy metal.

Will Toledo makes smart guitar-pop music for loners and weirdos. Teens Of Style reworks 11 songs from the self-aware 22-year-old's already-vast catalog.

This vivid, unabashed protest album pairs Anohni's unmistakable voice with contemporary synthetic sounds by Hudson Mohawke and Oneohtrix Point Never, yet finds ways to be truly unnerving.

Stream the intoxicating debut album from the London-based singer/producer who brings a meditative songwriting style to club rhythms.

On her new album, Alynda Segarra embeds the rhythms of the Latinx diaspora to explore the saga of a people displaced through exile, segregation and gentrification.

Hall is in a league of players who've turned the tables for jazz and their respective instruments. As far as modernizing the sound and vocabulary of jazz guitar to the degree he did, longtime admirer and fellow guitarist Rez Abbasi says Hall is unmatched. Abbasi picks five songs, each of which reveals Hall's idiosyncratic technique.

The mobilization of thousands more troops to bolster the military campaign in Ukraine is rippling across Russia, as the military swiftly drafts new recruits and signs of discontent appear to spread.

The Senate ratified a climate change treaty with a strong bipartisan vote Wednesday. It phases down hydrofluorocarbons and was unusual because most climate measures struggle to get Republican support.

Opening statements began Monday in the trial of five members of the Oath Keepers accused of seditious conspiracy. Prosecutors say they wanted to use violence to overturn the results of the election.

Hurricane Fiona has left Puerto Rico, but left behind a terrible mess. Whole communities have been cut off by mudslides. Roads and bridges are washed out, which is complicating the recovery effort.

Biographer Frances Wilson discusses the intense connection between William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy — and the "vortex of poetry" in which they lived.

Harry Markopolos spent nearly a decade on Bernard Madoff's trail. He says his efforts to alert securities regulators about Madoff's schemes were repeatedly ignored. In a new book, he details how the Securities and Exchange Commission still lacks the tools for the job.