Philip Ewing
Philip Ewing is an election security editor with NPR's Washington Desk. He helps oversee coverage of election security, voting, disinformation, active measures and other issues. Ewing joined the Washington Desk from his previous role as NPR's national security editor, in which he helped direct coverage of the military, intelligence community, counterterrorism, veterans and more. He came to NPR in 2015 from Politico, where he was a Pentagon correspondent and defense editor. Previously, he served as managing editor of Military.com, and before that he covered the U.S. Navy for the Military Times newspapers.
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The work of the government must not stop because of illness or the absence of the president, a group of former White House chiefs of staff said on Friday.
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Biden said he feels assured the courts, the Congress and national security officials will carry out the rule of law. The comments followed another week of back-and-forth on democratic practices.
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The debate in Thursday's House Homeland Security Committee hearing mirrored a broader national political argument over the demonstrations that followed the police killing of George Floyd this year.
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Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., says that in failing to appear in response to a House subpoena, acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf has expressed a dangerous contempt for congressional oversight.
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Two clandestine wars are being fought over U.S. election security: To protect voting and the election but also how much Americans learn about what's being done. Sometimes both break into the open.
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The Trump ally and longtime Republican megadonor testifies regarding cost-cutting measures at the U.S. Postal Service that Democrats say would jeopardize Americans' ability to vote by mail.
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Democrats did not claim victory after the head of the Postal Service suspended changes to service. Instead, they said they want guarantees about mail delivery and to hear more about how this happened.
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Washington and Americans are engaged with the problem of foreign interference as never before — but how much remains unknown about efforts targeting the election?
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The former deputy attorney general was in charge in the final days of the Obama era and into the early days of the Trump era. Senate Republicans want to ask her about the Russia investigation.
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A number of high-ranking Democrats have already said they would not consider an election delay, making the prospect extremely unlikely.