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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NPR's Miles Parks speaks to psychiatrist Alex Keuroghlian about the state of training for medical students to care for the LGBTQ community.
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A right-wing campaign has targeted a once-obscure voting partnership known as ERIC. Eight Republican-led states have pulled out, giving the election denial movement a big win.
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Canada is experiencing an extraordinary wildfire season, with effects that have been felt far beyond its borders.
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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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In a new novel, best friends navigate adult life amid the 2008 financial crisis in Ireland. NPR's Miles Parks talks with Caroline O'Donoghue about her book, "The Rachel Incident."
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Pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman went on trial this week in California's State Bar Court, where the state bar is seeking to revoke his law license.
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The artist known as NBDY realized music could be a career back in elementary school, when he started singing as he sold candy to his classmates. Now, he talks about his new R&B single "Feels."
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Some filmmakers turn time and again to the same actors for their movies - like Wes Anderson, whose latest is "Asteroid City." A look at the history behind the practice.