Lexie Schapitl
Lexie Schapitl is a production assistant with NPR's Washington Desk, where she produces radio pieces and digital content. She also reports from the field and assists with production of the NPR Politics Podcast.
Schapitl first came to NPR as a Washington Desk intern in 2017. She has previously worked as an associate producer with NPR's newscast unit, a social media manager with Vox and a reporting intern with Newsday. A New Jersey native and University of Maryland graduate, Schapitl is a fan of Maryland basketball, trivia, musicals and the New York Mets.
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Wexton spoke on the House floor Wednesday using an "augmentative and alternative communication" program.
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Biden said stepping aside was “the best way to unite" the country. He also said he would spend his last six months focusing on issues like Supreme Court reform, cancer research and Middle East peace.
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How did the coconut tree emerge as the emblem of the vice president's most devoted, or at least most-online followers? It's a story more than a year in the making.
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President Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and endorsed Vice President Harris to be the nominee. Here are some of the Democrats viewed as potential candidates for the race ahead.
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Florida has leaned Republican in recent election cycles, but Democrats see some opportunities in the former swing state, especially with abortion rights on the ballot in November.
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Erie County, Pa., is one of just a handful of places that boomeranged from supporting Obama in 2008 and 2012, to Trump in 2016, to Biden in 2020. It's worth watching in 2024.
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It's the second time in less than a year that House Republicans have pushed to remove their elected leader.
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Alabama passed a bill to protect IVF providers from legal liability. But it doesn't address the larger questions posed by the ruling that said frozen embryos qualify as children under the law.
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McConnell announced his plans Wednesday on the Senate floor, where he talked about waiting for a day when he would have total clarity about the end of his work: "That day arrived today."
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Nikki Haley seemed to side with the Alabama court's decision, telling NBC News, "Embryos, to me, are babies." President Biden has seized the opportunity to call for enshrining Roe.