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Politics & Policy

With more people voting by mail this year, Facebook and other social media companies are preparing for a potential delay in election results. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Media
Technology

Facebook vows to crack down on voter intimidation in election

Facebook announced new measures to prevent misinformation, threats and confusion surrounding the election, but let Trump Jr's call for an 'army of poll watchers' stand.

6 years ago

Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens as Vice President Mike Pence answers a question during the vice presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool)
Elections

Pence, Harris spar over COVID-19 in vice presidential debate

The first and only vice presidential debate of the 2020 election kicks off tonight in Salt Lake City, where incumbent Vice President Mike Pence meets Sen. Kamala Harris.

6 years ago

Operation Warp Speed's Moncef Slaoui, seen here at the White House in May, says clinical trials of experimental COVID-19 vaccines will soon reveal if they work. Meanwhile, manufacture of the vaccines is picking up speed. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Public Health

Latest COVID-19 vaccine timetable doesn’t include Election Day

Large-scale safety and efficacy trials of experimental vaccines in tens of thousands of volunteers are underway. Answers about the trials are likely to come late this year.

6 years ago

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, at the Capitol in Washington.   (Caroline Brehman/Pool via AP)
Delaware
Government Accountability
Law

Delaware Sen. Chris Coons talks with Supreme Court nominee Barrett ahead of hearings

Ahead of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, U.S. Senator Chris Coons asks one key question: “Why are we doing this?”

6 years ago

A U.S. Census Bureau worker carries a briefcase while knocking on the door of a home in August in Winter Park, Fla. (John Raoux/AP)
Government Accountability

Appellate judges let 2020 census continue through October

The ruling by the three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was a split decision for the Trump administration and a coalition of civil rights groups.

6 years ago

Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati. (AP file Photo/Matt Rourke)
Government Accountability
Media
Pennsylvania
Spotlight PA

Judge dismisses suit by top Pa. senator’s campaign against Spotlight PA journalist, others

The lawsuit, which Scarnati’s campaign could attempt to refile, could pose a chilling effect on journalists’ and the public’s access to public records.

6 years ago

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., speaks during a weekly news conference, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Elections
Government Accountability

Pelosi out to block Trump if disputed election ends in House

Pelosi is openly working to block President Donald Trump's advantage if, as he has suggested, he ties up the results of the Nov. 3 election.

6 years ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner
Elections
Law
Philadelphia

Krasner says anyone who tries to intimidate Philly voters will ‘find themselves in jail’

Krasner didn’t detail specific threats at Philly for Election Day, but the DA’s task force is deploying a month early and ready to prosecute cases of voter intimidation.

6 years ago

Oct. 2, 2020: A mail-in ballot for the Nov. 3 election in a mailbox in Rutherford. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
Elections
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Fact-checking President Trump’s charges about voter fraud and mail-in ballots in N.J.

The system isn’t perfect, but voting by mail in New Jersey is far, far safer than the president’s ‘evidence’ suggests.

6 years ago

President Trump's team of medical specialists overseeing his care at Walter Reed National Military Medical center. He will still have access to round-the-clock care from the White House medical staff.
NPR
National
Public Health

Cutting-edge COVID-19 care for Trump, not available for regular folks

President Trump will continue to get top-of-the-line medical care for COVID-19 now that he's back at the White House, including the final dose of remdesivir.

6 years ago

The University of Utah in Salt Lake City, pictured on Tuesday, is hosting the vice presidential debate on Wednesday.
NPR
Elections
National
Politics

5 questions ahead of the Pence-Harris vice presidential debate

Vice President Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris are set to square off Wednesday. Pence needs to right the ship, while Harris has to deflect charges of socialism.

6 years ago

An election worker hands a sheet of
Radio Times
Elections
Philadelphia

How Philadelphia is preparing for the election

With all eyes on the city, what measures should Philadelphia be taking in order to ensure a safe and fair voting process?

Air Date: October 7, 2020 10:00 am

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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany
NPR
Politics
Public Health

Tracker: Key Trump contacts who have tested positive for the coronavirus

President Trump and members of his campaign and White House staff as well as several GOP allies have tested positive. Here is who has tested positive for the virus so far.

6 years ago

Stephen Miller
NPR
Politics
Public Health

White House adviser Stephen Miller tests positive for the coronavirus

Nearly two dozen close contacts to the White House have tested positive for the virus in the last week.

6 years ago

Democratic vice presidential candidate, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks in Salt Lake City on Oct. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Elections
Immigration
Pennsylvania

As Kamala Harris takes debate stage, South Asian voters are flexing political muscle

Some South Asian voters are growing more engaged because U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris is the VP nominee. But the population is politically diverse.

6 years ago

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