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NPR's Miles Parks talks to Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel, about Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces.

NPR's Miles Parks speaks to Sam Greene, Professor of Russian Politics at King's College London, about the current turmoil inside Russia.

In the same year that Congress voted to make bison the national mammal, Yellowstone National Park had its second largest cull ever — reducing the heard by more than 1,200 animals.

With record turnout expected in the midterm elections, there have been scattered reports of voting machine problems and long lines at polling places. But overall, voting appears to be going smoothly.

India's Supreme Court has temporarily banned tourism in core areas of the country's 41 tiger reserves. The unexpected and controversial ruling is aimed at protecting the last of India's 1,700 tigers.

A group of registered child sex offenders in Aurora, Ill., may have to move out of their ministry-run home or face felony charges.

North Carolina's state board of elections is trying to get to the bottom of what happened in the state's 9th Congressional district last year. The outcome of that race still hasn't been called.

President Trump has fired election security czar Christopher Krebs. Trump, who has refused to accept the results of the White House race, tweeted Krebs had been terminated "effective immediately."

The partial federal shutdown that went into effect at midnight on Friday has a broad impact, from closing Independence Hall to furloughs at the Department of Education.

To keep their three kids in a sought-after public school district, one family sleeps in a car in the parking lot of a Pennsylvania Walmart while the parents work the overnight shift at the store.