Jessica Taylor
Jessica Taylor is a political reporter with NPR based in Washington, DC, covering elections and breaking news out of the White House and Congress. Her reporting can be heard and seen on a variety of NPR platforms, from on air to online. For more than a decade, she has reported on and analyzed House and Senate elections and is a contributing author to the 2020 edition of The Almanac of American Politics and is a senior contributor to The Cook Political Report.
Before joining NPR in May 2015, Taylor was the campaign editor for The Hill newspaper. Taylor has also reported for the NBC News Political Unit, Inside Elections, National Journal, The Hotline and Politico. Taylor has appeared on MSNBC, Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, and she is a regular on the weekly roundup on NPR's 1A with Joshua Johnson. On Election Night 2012, Taylor served as an off-air analyst for CBS News in New York.
A native of Elizabethton, Tennessee, she graduated magna cum laude in 2007 with a B.A. in political science from Furman University.
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"There is a mental illness problem that has to be dealt with. It's not the gun that pulls the trigger 鈥� it's the person holding the gun," Trump said to a standing ovation. -
"What we can't do is fail to pass something," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told WHAS radio. "The urgency of this is not lost on any of us." -
The debates will be held from 8 to 10 p.m. ET on July 30 and 31 in Detroit. Moderators will be CNN's Dana Bash, Don Lemon and Jake Tapper. -
Moulton is the fourth House Democrat to join the 2020 campaign. A critic of party leadership, the Marine Corps veteran also adds to the share of 40-and-under candidates in the race. -
The returns show that in both 2016 and 2017, Sanders and his wife jointly earned more than $1 million in each of those years. On Monday evening, Beto O'Rourke also released a decade of returns. -
Democrats had asked for a copy of the full report by next week, but William Barr says it will take a bit longer. Barr also said he would testify before congressional committees in early May. -
Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein prepared a summary of the special counsel's findings after learning on Friday from Robert Mueller that his work was complete. -
The Vermont senator, who serves as an independent and is running for president as a Democrat, is obliging with a new requirement from the Democratic National Committee. -
The Vermont independent became an ideological leader in the Democratic Party after his 2016 campaign against Hillary Clinton. He faces a far more crowded and liberal field this time.
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The president invoked emergency powers to free up more money than Congress had allowed in its spending deal. House Democrats are launching an investigation into his decision.
