United States Senator Rand Paul has drawn great attention over the last few years for his unique brand of libertarianism mixed with pragmatism. He has been mentioned as presidential contender for 2016, though some of his more radical views are raising concerns.

More than 100,000 people rode the train that night, though not without a fight. “Indescribable scenes of crowding and confusion never before paralleled in this city marked the throwing-open of the subway to the general public,” wrote theNew York Times. “They fought, kicked, and pummeled one other in their mad desire to reach the subway ticket office.”

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South Korea’s spy agency says Kim Jong-un had surgery

AP: South Korea’s National Intelligence Service spy agency says a foreign doctor operated on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to remove a cyst from his ankle, explaining his disappearance from public events

"I’m from New York City. I had never even heard of the word ‘mushing’ before I covered the Yukon Quest,” Reportage photographer Katie Orlinsky tells National Geographic’s Proof blog in a recent interview. “But as soon as I watched the first dog team come into a checkpoint with their legs pounding on the sparkling snow and their paws covered in those funny neon-colored booties, I was hooked.”

Katie was first exposed to the world of Alaskan sled dogs when she covered Yukon Quest, a 1000-mile dogsled race from Whitehorse, Yukon to Fairbanks, Alaska. Later this summer, she visited kennels in Eureka, Juneau and elsewhere to see how dogs pend the off-season, and explore the bond between musher and dog. Read the rest of the interview and see more of Katie’s photos on National Geographic’s website.

Katie Orlinsky is a photojournalist from New York City. She regularly works for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and various non-profit organizations around the world. She received the Alexia Foundation First Place Student Grant in 2012 and the POYI Emerging Vision Incentive award in 2011 for the body of work “Innocence Assassinated: Living in Mexico’s Drug War.”