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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Attorney General Merrick Garland said the Texas law clashes with Supreme Court precedent and could be a model for how states could put other constitutional rights in jeopardy. -
Biden has pledged the U.S. will target the assets, leadership and facilities of ISIS-K, the Islamic State group's affiliate that has reportedly claimed responsibility for the terror attack.
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Despite the deadly attack, President Biden pledged that the U.S. evacuation of Afghanistan will continue.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed through a $3.5 trillion budget framework Tuesday after an impasse with centrist Democrats threatened to derail progress on President Biden's domestic agenda.
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The Senate passed the plan Wednesday on party lines, but the legislation still needs to be written. Democrats aim to expand the child tax credit, expand Medicare and invest in climate programs.
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After intense pressure from progressives, the CDC has announced a more limited eviction moratorium days after an earlier freeze on evictions expired.
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Republicans need to gain just five seats in next year's midterm elections to take control of the U.S. House. It's New York Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney's job to make sure that doesn't happen.
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Reps. Charlie Crist, D-Fla., and Nancy Mace, R-S.C., introduced legislation to give further protections to people under guardianship and conservatorship.
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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Barbara Sprunt break down the Republican led efforts in the U.S. to discourage educators from teaching critical race theory in grade-level schools.
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The intense political backlash over the academic approach of examining U.S. institutions through the lens of race is shaping up to be a major cultural battle ahead of next year's midterm elections.
