Ashley Lopez

New adjustments to the 19 Meal Plan have been made following a technical error found in the system, according to an email sent by Associate Vice President for Planning & Operations Ryan Van Ommeren on Oct. 16. The email said that students were only allowed one swipe per meal period; however, this glitch authorized students...

The world is too complex to divine who will win this year's presidential election from the early-voting tea leaves, but there are still important lessons we can learn from the data about how the system has changed since 2020.

More than 50 million people have already cast ballots in this year’s election. So what can this early voting data tell us -- if anything?

It's very unlikely — but theoretically possible — that the presidential election ends with a 269-269 tie in the Electoral College.

Florida may not be a key swing state in the presidential election, but voters there are still focused on the contest – and on some big ballot measures like on abortion.

As a commuter student who has to drive nearly two hours round trip, five days a week from Santa Paula, I believe California Lutheran University does an inadequate job at accommodating commuter students’ schedules and time on campus. According to the Cal Lutheran website, 48% of students are commuters. Across the nation; however, this number...

TOPSHOT - Election workers prepare mail-in ballots for tallying at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on the eve of Election Day, November 4, 2024, in City of Industry, California. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

It’s very unlikely — but theoretically possible — that the presidential election ends with an Electoral College tie. If it did come to pass, here's how the next president would be determined.

Statewide efforts to adopt open and nonpartisan primaries, as well as ranked choice voting, failed in this year's election, delivering a stinging setback to the election reform movement.

Evangelical Latino voters at one Pennsylvania church told NPR that they thought Donald Trump would stick up for their values in office. And throughout the campaign, we heard from Latino voters frustrated that President Biden and Vice President Harris weren't doing enough to address their concerns about the cost of living.This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, national political correspondent Sarah McCammon, and voting correspondent Ashley Lopez.The podcast is produced by Jeongyoon Han, Casey Morell and Kelli Wessinger. Our editor is Eric McDaniel. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.Listen to every episode of the NPR Politics Podcast sponsor-free, unlock access to bonus episodes with more from the NPR Politics team, and support public media when you sign up for The NPR Politics Podcast+ at plus.npr.org/politics.