Ron Elving

Former US president Donald Trump is in Milwaukee amid strict security, for his party's election convention.  Audio

Ron discusses the US Supreme Court ruling that former presidents are entitled to some degree of immunity from criminal prosecution.  Audio

Talk in Washington today is being dominated by speculation about who Donald Trump will pick as his running mate.  Audio

Ron Elving looks at the many unanswered questions after former US president Donald Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records at a New York trial. Audio

Developments in the ever-evolving crisis of the Middle East, and the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, are drawing Washington's attention.  Audio

Ron looks at the latest on the war in Gaza, and the wave of university campus protests across the US.

He is a Senior Editor and Correspondent, Washington Desk for NPR news. Audio

Ron looks at the US$95b of military assistance approved for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which passed with broad bipartisan support.  Audio

Huge crowds are gathered across North America to watch the coast-to-coast solar eclipse as it passes. Audio

Engineers have started removing mangled wreckage after the partial collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore that killed six people. Audio

Ron Elving is Senior Editor and Correspondent on the Washington Desk for NPR News. Audio

Ron Elving has the takeaways from President Joe Biden's State of the Union speech, and the highly controversial Republican response. Audio

Congress is taking a 12-day winter break but there's a long list of unfinished business on Capitol Hill. Audio

Republican candidate Nikki Haley is getting one last shot at Donald Trump after Ron DeSantis suspended his presidential campaign.  Audio

Donald Trump has changed his mind about returning to the witness stand to testify in his own defense at his civil fraud trial in New York. And in Texas, the Supreme Court has temporarily halted a… Audio

Ron joins Kathryn to talk about how the Hamas-Israel conflict continues to have an impact in the US, including the weekend shooting in Vermont of three college students from Palestine. Democrats are… Audio

The United States is vowing to defend itself against a barrage of attacks on its military bases across the Middle East. Over the last three weeks, Iran-backed militia groups have attacked US bases and… Audio

Ron Elving discusses the new Speaker of the House and Congress; a relatively junior member of the leadership, Mike Johnson. And the atrocity in Lewiston, Maine, with 18 people dead in a shooting, and… Audio

Ron Elving is in Washington, focusing on the United States' reaction to events in Gaza and Israel. He'll also talk about the inability of the House majority to pick a leader and resume normal… Audio

A federal government shutdown has been narrowly avoided in the US, at President Joe Biden signed a temporary funding bill to keep agencies open. Congress rushed to approve the bipartisan deal which… Audio

US correspondent Ron Elving joins Kathryn to break down some of the issues in Washington right now, as the House Speaker Kevin McCarthy fights to keep his job and quell a rebellion in his party ranks… Audio