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Ohio’s top elections official says it’s already easy to vote in Ohio but he says wants to make it even easier. Here's what he wants to do.

Since 2008, Bella has been the city's most popular dog name. That's when the last of Stephenie Meyer's vampire-themed Twilight novels featuring heroine Bella Swan was published.

2: TEMPLE GRANDIN is one of the nation's top designers of livestock facilities. She is also autistic. Grandin was also one of the subjects in Oliver Sacks' book, "An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales". In Grandin's book, Thinking in Pictures: and other reports from my life with Autism she describes how her inner-autistic world has led her to develop animal empathy. Her book is published by Doubleday 1995. (REBROADCAST FROM 11

The U.S. Geological Survey said it is the largest Croatian earthquake measured on modern seismic instruments.

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.

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: 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: NPR's Senior Vice President for News resigns over harassment allegations; scientists say they've found space inside a huge Egyptian pyramid; and the Houston Astros win the World Series.

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.

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.