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Commentator Barbara J. King says the book Farmageddon offers useful advice on how to take a stand against industrialized animal farming in the fight to forge a better future for our planet.

Jason Chaffetz, the Utah Republican, says he will not seek any office in 2018 — tamping down speculation that he could challenge Sen. Orrin Hatch in a re-election bid.

Also: The international Nuclear Summit opens in Washington today; tornadoes strike Oklahoma; and Nobel Prize winning Hungarian author Imre Kertész dies, who'd written about the Holocaust.

This week's election results show education issues foremost in the minds of many voters, and suggest many parents may be seeking a course correction after 18 months of disruptions.

A commission on American prisons offers a report to the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. Among the group's findings: Violence is an enormous problem, and health care is a disaster. The panel recommends an end to institutional secrecy that has permitted prisons to evade oversight for decades.

The state legislature is considering moving up the date of the presidential primary to March from June in order to have more sway over who becomes the Democratic Party's nominee.

Also: Searching for alien moons; U.S. military aircraft hit targets in Somalia; and the voice of the Lucky Charms leprechaun has died.

Also: A Russian fishing trawler capsizes, killing dozens of people; a typhoon headed for the Philippines loses strength; and Crystal Cathedral televangelist Robert Schuller is critically ill.

Also: Baltimore courts release about half of the people jailed in Monday's riots without charge; rubella is eradicated in the Americas; and Chinese builders say they erected a skyscraper in 19 days.

As part of our Take Two series on people re-inventing themselves through their work, we visit John Scanlan, 43. Scanlan abandoned an engineering career in hopes of using a law degree to help others. But all has not gone according to plan.