Your NPR news source

Miles Parks

The former president blasted Republicans who have crossed him and kept up repeated election lies in an NPR interview.
Recent off-year elections showed that voters may not be so invested in making it easier to vote while Republicans may benefit from higher voter turnout than they previously had thought.
A bipartisan group is hoping to support voting workers who have faced unprecedented scrutiny and pressure for more than a year now.
Ratified in 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution gives the vice president the ability to subsume the powers of the presidency if he has the support of the executive Cabinet.
Dec. 8 is known as the “safe harbor” deadline for states to certify their results. Past the deadline, Congress has significantly less latitude to intervene in the election results.
The problem isn’t with the results taking a little while to tabulate, experts say. The problem is with conspiracy theories that pop up as a result.
Early voting numbers continue to shatter records, and experts predict long lines will become less of a problem over the coming weeks.
This summer, experts expected more than half of all Americans to vote by mail. Recent polls seem to indicate the number to be significantly lower, which could mean extraordinary lines in some places.
Louis DeJoy will give his first public remarks since stopping the operational changes he put into place this summer at the Postal Service. Democrats are angry; Republicans are rolling their eyes.
Despite a partisan divide over increasing absentee voting, about half of all Republicans support universal access to a mail ballot, according a new Pew Research poll.
The global death toll from the virus has now surpassed 14,000 people, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
After a disappointing Super Tuesday, the billionaire former mayor of New York City announced he is suspending his campaign.
Special counsel Robert Mueller announced his resignation and defended his office’s work in remarks at the Justice Department.
Furloughed federal workers, Border Patrol agents and the first beneficiary of a new criminal justice law will be among those attending President Trump’s prime-time address.
The former president voiced support for 260 Democrats, up and down the ballot, a majority of whom are women. He’s put a focus on races that could have an impact on redistricting in the near future.
Manafort’s longtime tax accountant will take the stand again Friday morning. He and bookkeeper Heather Washkuhn testified Thursday that they were unaware of Manafort’s offshore bank accounts.
Manafort’s defense, judging by his attorney’s opening statement, rests in trying to undermine the credibility of his longtime business partner, Rick Gates. Gates is cooperating with prosecutors.
National security adviser John Bolton cited the special counsel investigation in announcing that Russia’s president won’t visit the United States this year.