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Attorney General Jeff Sessions will testify at a Senate oversight hearing Wednesday. Lawmakers have questions about his contacts with Russia and his reversals on civil rights positions.

Oregon House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland, announced on Tuesday morning the latest positive case of COVID-19 would mean the House would delay voting on bills until April 26th. It’s the third time the House has been forced to cancel sessions due to the virus. The other two cases happened last month.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, about President Donald Trump's upcoming pick for the Supreme Court.

The daughter of acclaimed director Francis Ford Coppola, Sofia Coppola made her directorial debut with the well received Virgin Suicides. Her new movie, Lost in Translation, which features Bill Murray as a TV star struggling to find himself, is already generating Oscar talk. NPR's Bob Mondello has a review.

The U.S. Coast Guard said three sailors identified as Kerry O'Brien, Frank O'Brien and William Gross were last heard from on April 4. They were aboard a 44-foot boat due to stop in Cabo San Lucas.

The Coast Guard said it initially received a call from the Royal Caribbean ship Quantum of the Seas that an Australian man went overboard late Tuesday night.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. There was no shortage of topics discussed — from police oversight and voting rights litigation to protections for the LGBT community and the administration's travel ban. But Democrats repeatedly pushed him on one topic in particular — Russia.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Johanna Zorn, executive director of the Third Coast International Audio Festival in Chicago, about this year's winning audio pieces from across the globe.

Poor air quality from West Coast wildfires have interfered with life across the region. In Los Angeles, street vendors were forced inside and parents scrambled to prevent children's asthma attacks.

President Trump responded to the attorney general's vow to resist political interference by urging him to prove it with new investigations of Democrats.