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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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. -
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris make their first joint appearance Wednesday since he tapped her to be his vice presidential running mate. -
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. -
Election officials fear a massive shortage of poll workers for the general election as older people opt out of their normal election-year service due to concerns over the coronavirus. -
Speaking in Philadelphia, the presumptive Democratic nominee says President Trump's actions show he "is more interested in power than in principle." -
President Trump and congressional Democrats are haggling over the size of the next bill designed to help Americans through the crisis. -
Trump told reporters on Tuesday that he wanted to be positive but also that his actions in response to the pandemic came as quickly as practical. -
"Tremendous progress has been made in a very short period," Trump said. But his administration is also trying to brace the public for a dire ordeal. -
The president offered a dire outlook on Saturday for the week to come, yet also said, "Some hard decisions are going to have to be made" regarding social distancing guidelines.
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Hospitals will be reimbursed by the federal government through the historic economic relief package to treat uninsured patients infected with the coronavirus, the president said.
