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But next week's special session on redistricting will hardly be a return to normalcy. The Capitol is under construction. Mask rules are in place. And many lawmakers are concerned about security after last year's incursion on the building.

Thirty years ago, Jeff Sessions' history of racial comments derailed him from a job as a federal judge. Now, President-elect Trump has nominated the Alabama senator to run the Justice Department.

President Trump will speak at the White House, where he is expected to claim victory for widening the GOP's Senate majority. NPR's Noel King, Scott Detrow and Tamara Keith offer a preview.

Host Madeleine Brand talks to Daniel Williams, correspondent for the Washington Post about the Russian nuclear submarine that sunk to the bottom of the Barents sea during naval exercises off Russia's north coast this past weekend. More than 100 crew members are trapped inside.

NPR's John Nielsen reports that marine biologists are searching the waters along the coasts of Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, and Southern California for signs of the organism known to some as "killer algae." "Colepra Taxifolia" is widely believed to have first appeared in the Mediterranean. It doesn't actually harm people, but it does disturb underwater coastal ecosystems.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports on the public response in Japan to the sinking of their fishing trawler off the coast of Hawaii last week. Japanese anger has intensified in recent days since the revelation of the involvement of a U.S. Navy admiral who has made controversial remarks about the Japanese in the past.

Many older houses along the coast have what are usually described as a "widow's walk." But, contrary to popular belief, these may have been built as much for fighting chimney fires as they were for catching a first glimpse of returning seafarers.

We explore the tsunami's impact on the small village of Ondachchimadam, on the east coast of Sri Lanka. NPR will revisit the village periodically over the next year to chart its progress in the tragedy's aftermath. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

The Aceh region of Indonesia, at the northern tip of the island of Sumatra, was one of the hardest-hit areas of Sunday's earthquake and tsunami. The city of Bande Aceh is all but destroyed, and in smaller towns along the coast the death toll continues to grow. NPR's Michael Sullivan reports.

As drug traffickers and the Guatemalan navy battle for control of the seas off that country's Pacific coast, fishermen are making illegal but lucrative catches.