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Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who's expected to sign the legislation, had called for the formation of an election police force in a speech last year.

With her 1979 hit "Chuck E's in Love," Rickie Lee Jones established herself as a musician with a compelling voice and a penchant for storytelling. For Intersections, a Morning Edition series on artists and their inspirations, the singer talks about the varied sources that informed her lyrical style. Hear songs from her latest CD.

Actor David Duchovny could watch Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather a million times. "If I'm flipping around channels, I'll see it's on and I'll say, 'OK, I'll watch it for a scene or two' and then I can never turn it off," he says.

Commentator Frank Deford considers a few athletic and cultural standards that have changed over the years.

The "millennium problems," have resisted solving for decades. The challenges are important and famous enough among experts that a $1 million reward has been offered for each correct answer.

Twenty years ago Wednesday, Sally Ride became the first U.S. woman to go into space. But a new book, The Mercury 13, reveals a secret female astronaut program decades earlier, eventually scrapped by NASA's "boy's club." NPR's Melissa Block talks with author Martha Ackmann.

Quirky lyrics that mix Spanish and English and an eclectic musical style have helped make Kevin Johansen one of Argentina's hottest musicians. The Argentine-American artist hopes to win over U.S. audiences with a stateside tour that begins this week. Brian Byrnes reports. Hear songs from Johansen's latest albums.

Captain Ahab, who led the ill-fated quest for Melville's great white whale, Moby-Dick, may have been misunderstood. Today, it appears he has much in common with modern American leaders.

Critic Alan Cheuse has a review of The Blue Fox written by the Icelandic novelist Sjon, who also writes lyrics for Bjork.

An Indonesian who claimed to have been born in 1870 died this week. If true, at 146, he would have been the oldest person ever by far. Indonesia didn't record births until 1900, however.