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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President Trump said he would announce on Tuesday who would help him decide when to ease up on social distancing guidelines meant to mitigate the public health impact of coronavirus.
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America must brace for 100,000 or more people to die in the coming months in the coronavirus pandemic, the White House's response team warned.
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The White House coronavirus task force convened a news conference following a concession by the Trump administration that normalcy won't be restored by Easter or maybe even this spring.
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The president demanded in all capital letters on Friday that automakers General Motors and Ford get into the health equipment business to fight the coronavirus.
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President Trump says test data will establish risk categories for counties. States can then work out their own social distancing rules.
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The president's informal target to curtail mitigation measures like social distancing comes as the total number of confirmed cases nationwide tops 50,000.
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The White House team says it will make an assessment after next week as to how effective social distancing and other mitigation measures have been in stifling the spread of the virus.
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The president said the border would close by "mutual consent," the latest development in the coronavirus pandemic.
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A cache of Instagram posts has yielded what researchers call a more up-to-date look at election interference operations. Much of it is familiar but now executed with more sophistication.
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Senators voted as expected to clear President Trump on both articles of impeachment filed by the House. Now Washington must try to pick up the pieces.