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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The advice from cybersecurity experts is unanimous: Internet voting is a bad idea. But it's already happening in every federal election. In 2020, more than 300,000 Americans cast ballots online.
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Highlights from NPR Morning Edition host Michel Martin's conversation with Vice President Kamala Harris, including discussion of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions and how she sees her role.
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Hundreds are arrested in yet another night of violence in France. It began when a teenager of North African descent was fatally shot by police.
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NPR's Miles Parks speaks to Sam Greene, Professor of Russian Politics at King's College London, about the current turmoil inside Russia.
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The latest on a developing situation in Russia involving the high-profile leader of a mercenary group that's been key in Russia's war effort in Ukraine.
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Reaction from Ukraine to tensions in Russia over the prominent head of a Russian mercenary group.
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NPR's Miles Parks talks to Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel, about Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces.
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Why are Republicans abandoning one of the best tools the government has to catch voter fraud? That question is the focus of a new NPR investigation. Here are five takeaways from the report.
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A right-wing campaign has targeted a once-obscure voting partnership called ERIC. Eight Republican states have now pulled out, giving the election denial movement a big win — and a blueprint for 2024.
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Virginia is the eighth state to leave the bipartisan ERIC compact amid fringe conservative reports and conspiracy theories attempting to connect the system to liberal activists.