Miles Parks
Miles Parks is a reporter on NPR's Washington Desk. He covers voting and elections, and also reports on breaking news.
Parks joined NPR as the 2014-15 Stone & Holt Weeks Fellow. Since then, he's investigated FEMA's efforts to get money back from Superstorm Sandy victims, profiled budding rock stars and produced for all three of NPR's weekday news magazines.
A graduate of the University of Tampa, Parks also previously covered crime and local government for The Washington Post and The Ledger in Lakeland, Fla.
In his spare time, Parks likes playing, reading and thinking about basketball. He wrote The Washington Post's obituary of legendary women's basketball coach Pat Summitt.
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More than a month after a federal judge halted a key portion of President Trump's executive order on voting, another judge has ruled that additional provisions of the order need to pause as well. -
Voting officials say they've never seen a demand like the one the Justice Department sent to Colorado last month. -
President Trump and his allies have long made false claims of widespread noncitizen voting. Now, as the GOP pursues new restrictions, experts worry isolated arrests will be used to push the new rules. -
Israel's military has released a long-awaited investigation into the killing of 15 Palestinian medics in Gaza by its troops. The Israeli military says "failures" occurred.
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A number of nonprofit leaders have met to discuss how to handle potential backlash from the Trump administration.
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The Trump administration has halted work on the National Climate Assessment. It's the most comprehensive source of information about how climate change affects the U.S.
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We talk about the songs that got us through the early days of parenting.
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NPR's Miles Parks speaks with writer Emily Henry about her new novel, "Great Big Beautiful Life."
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Courts and the Trump administration have clashed repeatedly in two high profile immigration cases this week, with another Supreme Court showdown looming.
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Protests against the Trump administration are held for another weekend at scores of cities and towns across the U.S.
