A Russian warship launches a cruise missile at a target in Ukraine on Monday. A massive barrage of Russian strikes hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities on Monday morning, knocking out water and power supplies in apparent retaliation for what Moscow alleged was a Ukrainian attack on its Black Sea Fleet over the weekend. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service / AP hide caption
A ship passes through the Bosphorus strait on October 14, 2022 in Istanbul, Turkey. Chris McGrath/Getty Images hide caption
Security personnel wait for voters outside the Leon County Supervisor of Elections office on Nov. 3, 2020, in Tallahassee, Fla. Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images hide caption
The entrance to Camp Delta where detainees from the U.S. war in Afghanistan live is shown April 7, 2004, in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Maj. Roman Kovalev leads a newly formed 500-person battalion that is training at military camp outside Dnipro, Ukraine, on Oct. 24. Franco Ordoñez/NPR hide caption
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) listens to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during their meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow on Friday. Mikhail Metzel / Sputnik / Kremlin Pool Photo / AP hide caption
Crime is a concern for many midterm voters across the country. Tillsonburg/Getty Images hide caption
Volodymyr and Svitlana Tsyba speak in their home in Hrushivka, Ukraine, on Oct. 18. They say they were detained by Ukrainian intelligence officials looking for Russian collaborators. Franco Ordoñez/NPR hide caption
Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks during a news conference in June 2016 at the Pentagon. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
A resident looks out the window holding a candle for light inside her house during a power outage, in Borodyanka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Thursday. Airstrikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians on Tuesday, part of what the country's president called an expanding Russian campaign to drive the nation into the cold and dark. Emilio Morenatti/AP hide caption
A migrant found smuggled in a vehicle is apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol and the Webb County Sheriff on Oct. 12 in Laredo, Texas. Allison Dinner/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Police officers respond to a call that an active shooter had reportedly injured 24 students at Chillicothe High School in Chillicothe, Ohio, in September. The call turned out to be a hoax. Similar scenes have played out at schools across the country in recent weeks. Chillicothe Police Department/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Several of the military's largest U.S. bases are located in states where abortion is now banned, including Fort Hood in Texas. Tony Gutierrez/AP hide caption
Demonstrators carry a coffin covered with American, Canadian and French flags and pictures of politicians as they protest on Jean-Jacques Dessalines Day in Port-au-Prince on Monday. Haitians protest against their prime minister and foreign countries as the nation celebrates the 216th anniversary of the assassination of Dessalines, a Haitian independence hero and founding father. Richard Pierrin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
From left: Ivan Sushchyk, Vadym Zahozytsky and Yana Yelizarova discuss U.S. support for the war in Ukraine at a coffee shop in Kyiv on Oct. 11. Franco Ordoñez/NPR hide caption