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Also: Negotiations continue on Iran's nuclear program; South Carolina lawmakers will open debate on the Confederate flag; and Burt's Bees founder, Burt Shavitz, has died.

Also: The Supreme Court opens its new term today; the search continues off the Bahamas for a ship damaged in a hurricane; and smog from Indonesia closes schools in Malaysia.

Also: Protests over a fatal Minneapolis police shooting of an unarmed black man; an emergency in Washington state after a storm; and an Irish visitor gets his GoPro camera wrong on a Vegas trip.

Also: President Obama's HHS nominees opens confirmation hearings today; Syrian rebels say they bombed a hotel in Aleppo; and a former Fukushima worker sues the utility that owns the plant.

State law lets any member of the bar be appointed as a public defender. Gov. Jay Nixon was assigned a client, but Nixon's spokesman says you can't appoint an attorney without the attorney's consent.

Also: President Trump's revised travel ban is back in a federal appellate court; cholera is spreading in part of Yemen; and Miss U.S.A. 2017 is a chemist at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine sorted through 10,000 studies to determine the good and bad health effects of marijuana. Tight drug restrictions impede research, they say.

Children of color are reportedly over represented in special education classes in Minnesota and other states. For more on whether anything can be done about it, guest host Celeste Headlee speaks with Dan Losen of the The Civil Rights Project at UCLA.

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.

Conscience or incompetence? Two competing narratives — along partisan lines — have emerged to explain the sudden departure of the head of the Federal Student Aid Office.