Barbara Sprunt
Barbara Sprunt is a producer on NPR's Washington desk, where she reports and produces breaking news and feature political content. She formerly produced the NPR Politics Podcast and got her start in radio at as an intern on NPR's Weekend All Things Considered and Tell Me More with Michel Martin. She is an alumnus of the Paul Miller Reporting Fellowship at the National Press Foundation. She is a graduate of American University in Washington, D.C., and a Pennsylvania native.
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Americans have cast 93 million early ballots as of Sunday afternoon, putting the 2020 election on track for historic levels of voter turnout.
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Joe Biden forcefully pushes back against President Trump's campaign message that voters wouldn't be safe under a Biden administration.
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Perhaps more than any other U.S. state or territory, Hawaii's path to statehood was paved with political obstacles and roadblocks stemming from racism.
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The postmaster general committed to delivering the nation's election mail securely, at his first public remarks since stopping the operational changes he instituted this summer at the Postal Service.
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In dismissing the argument that a subpoena seeking eight years of the president's returns is "overbroad," the federal judge declared: "Justice requires an end to this controversy."
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The former political adviser to President Trump is indicted alongside three other people in connection with an effort to defraud "hundreds of thousands of donors," according to federal prosecutors.
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Louis DeJoy, an ally of President Trump, has come under fire in recent weeks for what's viewed as directives to slow down the USPS in order to suppress absentee or mail-in votes.
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President Trump on Thursday evening reiterates his interest in denying the U.S. Postal Service funds, which he says would kneecap efforts to expand mail-in voting.
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A number of Republican figures have helped the rapper file paperwork to appear on the ballot in several states as a third-party candidate in November.
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris make their first joint appearance Wednesday since he tapped her to be his vice presidential running mate.
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The selection will make Harris the third woman and first Black and first Asian American candidate to be nominated for vice president by a major political party.
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In response to a question from NPR about whether Biden would engage with Cuba if elected president, Biden contrasted the diversity of the country's Latino community with that of the Black community.