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Also: Kenya's president takes the oath of office for a second term; President Trump will visit Capitol Hill today; and the Bali volcano keeps erupting.

Also: Top military official removed from post in North Korea, where young leader may be purging old guard; Microsoft and NBC call it quits — MSNBC.com will become NBCNews.com; some Egyptians protest as Secretary of State Clinton passes by.

Top stories include Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker survives recall effort, vote seen as blow to Democrats; suicide bombers in Afghanistan kill at least 20 people.

Top stories today include the possibility of a bailout of troubled Spanish banks; U.N. monitors get close to the site of a reported massacre in Syria - they'd previously been blocked by Syrian troops.

Pentagon officials confirm that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, will give up his command this summer. But officials deny the move is linked to allegations that Sanchez knew about abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison. Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Army's second-ranking general, will replace Sanchez. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Michele Kelemen.

Republicans are feeling pressure to deliver the first overhaul of the federal tax code in more than 30 years after the collapse of the long-promised dismantling of the Affordable Care Act.

Ryan Murphy's first show for Netflix is a satire on politics through a high school election in tony Santa Barbara, starring Ben Platt and Gwyneth Paltrow. It debuted last Friday.

Also: Syria's rebels accused of killing civilians; and Utah finds a way to reopen its national parks.

The best albums of 2017 delivered both comfort and challenge — both salve and spur. (That also applies to the honorable mentions listed, any of which could easily have come off the bench.)

On this week's show: Chris Rock's Top Five, mix tapes and loved music, and what's making us happy this week.