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 remains in office until early 2021 — and there will be political struggles aplenty for Washington and the outgoing chief executive before Inauguration Day.
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The Trump campaign wants to cease or pause ballot counting in key states. Meanwhile, he and his supporters continued years of deliberate denigration of the integrity of U.S. elections. -
Federal officials credit years of preparation and tough lessons from the Russian attack on the 2016 election for what they called a much better showing by government agencies at every level. -
Voters and national security officials are focused as never before on assuring the security of the election. Here's what you need to know in the final days of voting. -
A report published on Thursday described how many government and political domains don't observe a security practice that makes it more difficult for attackers to run spoof email scams. -
GOP members on the Senate Judiciary Committee decry what they call inappropriate questioning about Amy Coney Barrett's Catholic faith and call it un-American persecution of her religion. -
Minority members on the Senate Judiciary Committee are alluding frequently to the pending election — and in at least one case, asking that the Supreme Court nominee agree to keep out of it. -
Minority Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are using their time to focus on what they call the perils presented by Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the existing U.S. health care system. -
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. -
The former FBI director says that if he knew today what he knew during the Russia investigation, he would have taken a more skeptical view about a key surveillance request.
