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 deal between negotiators from the House and the White House would fund the government until the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30. -
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sergio Martínez- Beltrán, political reporter for The Texas Newsroom, about the impeachment trial Attorney General Ken Paxton faces with charges including bribery.
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When you're the president, vacation involves secret service, coordination with police, crowds of people watching you on the beach and the possibility that at any moment the job will come calling. -
President Biden is spending the week at his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Del. While he may get some downtime, it's impossible to fully check out from the job.
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President Biden is known for his close relationship with his grandchildren. But he hadn't recognized a 4-year-old daughter of Hunter Biden from his family, until Friday. -
On a very hot day in Washington, President Biden met with mayors from two cities grappling with extreme heat, announcing some new measures to try to help workers deal with the issue. -
The national monument, at sites in Illinois and Mississippi, will help protect places that tell Till's story, as well as reflect the activism of his mother. -
In an address to the U.S. Congress, Israel's president emphasized the close ties between the two countries, even as some progressive Democrats boycotted the speech.
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Isaac Herzog's visit to Capitol Hill came after the House passed a GOP-led resolution reaffirming support for Israel in the wake of incendiary comments made and then walked back by a leading Democrat. -
The Washington Democrat walked back comments she made over the weekend in which she called Israel a "racist state."
