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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A Pentagon official said Ukraine asked about the military aid on July 25, the day the nations' leaders spoke. It has been assumed that Kyiv wasn't aware the funding was put on hold until much later.
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Lawmakers heard from two witnesses called by Republicans, former Ukraine peace envoy Kurt Volker and former National Security Council aide Tim Morrison.
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Marie Yovanovitch described a pressure campaign to oust her from Kyiv. President Trump tweeted negatively about her during her hearing; Rep. Adam Schiff called it "witness intimidation."
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The State Department staffer who overheard a newly revealed phone call was then told the president cared more about looking into the Bidens than Ukraine policy, the House committee learned.
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The curtain has nearly fallen on the special counsel investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, but this drama may have at least one more act left to run.
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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.
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The president's former personal lawyer said he was "ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is." Cohen made a number of incendiary allegations against the president in Wednesday's landmark hearing.
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Trump's former campaign chairman and a top aide are charged with money laundering; a former foreign policy aide has pleaded guilty to lying to FBI.