Shea Stephens

NPR's Joel Rose reporting.

Watchdog groups led by former Park Service employees

say that the shutdown worsened the funding and environmental crisis at national parks.

NPR's Kirk Sigler reports that the Trump administration ordered most national parks to stay open with the skeleton staff.

In Michigan, three men are charged with trying to aid a terrorist organization.

From member station WDET, Quinn Kleinfelter reports that the suspects are accused of plotting an attack over the Halloween weekend.

Residents in the Ukrainian capital were urged to stay indoors early today amid a series of Russian attacks that left at least 11 people injured, at least one critically.

Critical infrastructure, multiple apartment buildings, private homes and businesses in Kiev were damaged in the attacks.

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The Justice Department is suing California Secretary of State and Governor Gavin Newsom over new voter-approved redistricting plans.

DOJ says the plan mandates racially gerrymandered congressional districts.

Newsom says the aim is to create more Democratic seats in response to the Texas redistricting that recently added five likely Republican seats in the U.S.

House.

Boeing machinists in the St.

Louis area have ended their four-month-old strike after approving the company's latest contract offer.

From St.

Louis Public Radio, Olivia Mizell has the story.

Regions at Texas A&M University have adopted a new policy requiring prior approval before professors can discuss topics on race and gender in classrooms.

The change comes months after a video of a student confronting a professor over a lesson on gender identity went viral.

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