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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is a foreign affairs expert who serves on the National Security Council. He has been described as having told investigators he worried immediately about the Ukraine affair.

NPR's Melissa Block is in Tallahassee, where the Bush campaign won a potentially significant legal victory early today. A circuit judge reaffirmed the decision of Katherine Harris, Florida's Secretary of State and a Republican, which said Harris could certify the state's vote count tomorrow without having to include the results of hand recounts that are going on in several counties. Then late in the day the Florida Supreme Court delayed any certiification of the election by the Florida Secretary of State. The manual recounts have been going on in predominantly Democratic counties, and the Gore camp hoped that numbers coming out of those counties would put the Vice President over the top in the key battle for Florida's 25 electoral votes. Democrats said they will appeal the ruling in state Supreme Court.

The results are in: teams Ramrod and Trampoleen are the winners of Ball State University's second annual Pumpkin Drop. See photos of the pumpkin-protecting winning designs and hear the sound of winning pumpkins.

Haley, the top rival to former President Donald Trump in the 2024 primary election, just released her delegates and encouraged them to back Trump. Now, she'll be at the convention to nominate him.

The Vacancies Act says many temporary government appointees cannot remain in their posts after the 300th day of a president's first year in office.

The new season of Stranger Things is out and has reignited the hit Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush. The song has risen to the top of the streaming charts since being featured in the first episode.

Small ads in supermarket tabloids, comic books and magazines offered a chance at the big time in the music business. Thousands of would-be lyricists responded with their "song-poems" and their savings. NPR's Scott Simon reports on a new anthology of the results.

Opposition candidates participated in state and local elections in Venezuela for the first time in years, having concluded that boycotts only strengthened the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, President Bush's choice for top U.S. military commander in Iraq, meets with the Senate Armed Services Committee. But Tuesday's confirmation hearing mostly gave senators a chance to voice their own opinions on the conflict.

Thanks to strong pitching from Cleveland, the Indians now lead the Series two games to one.