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 and his top advisers had high hopes for a surge in deployments targeting South American contraband. They've been productive but not a panacea. -
The iconic vessel was intended to provide overflow capacity to the New York metropolitan area but ultimately wasn't needed as badly as first feared. -
The White House released a blueprint for states on coronavirus testing on Monday at a daily news conference it spiked and then revived. -
The White House's pandemic task force spoke Thursday following more reports about record unemployment connected with the disaster. -
The administration and the states continue to grapple with how to move forward following the disaster. -
President Trump has said he believes many states could begin to re-open even before the federal guidelines for social distancing and mitigation expire on May 1. -
Trump teased that some states might be able to re-open in some form or change their practices before May 1. But he said federal guidelines on social distancing would stay in effect until then. -
President Trump said he would announce on Tuesday who would help him decide when to ease up on social distancing guidelines meant to mitigate the public health impact of coronavirus. -
The White House says the top immunologist isn't going anywhere, notwithstanding a retweet from President Trump's account that linked Dr. Anthony Fauci with criticism. -
"We're going to make a decision, and hopefully, it's going to be the right decision," President Trump said at Friday's White House task force briefing.
