Rachel Treisman
Rachel Treisman (she/her) is a writer and editor for the Morning Edition live blog, which she helped launch in early 2021.
Treisman has worn many digital hats since arriving at NPR as a National Desk intern in 2019. She's written hundreds of breaking news and feature stories, which are often among NPR's most-read pieces of the day.
She writes multiple stories a day, covering a wide range of topics both global and domestic, including politics, science, health, education, culture and consumer safety. She's also reported for the hourly newscast, curated radio content for the NPR One app, contributed to the daily and coronavirus newsletters, live-blogged 2020 election events and spent the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic tracking every state's restrictions and reopenings.
Treisman previously covered business at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and evaluated the credibility of digital news sites for the startup NewsGuard Technologies, which aims to fight misinformation and promote media literacy. She is a graduate of Yale University, where she studied American history and served as editor in chief of the Yale Daily News.
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After Trump's win, there are growing calls among American women to boycott men. They're drawing inspiration from 4B, a South Korean feminist movement that rejects dating, sex, marriage and childbirth.
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In a speech at Howard University, Harris urged people to join her in mobilizing and organizing for a better future. She also said she called Trump to offer help with the peaceful transition of power.
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Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware, both Democrats, won their Senate races on Tuesday — doubling the number of Black women who have been elected to the chamber.
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The Associated Press has called California for Vice President Kamala Harris, giving her a sizeable influx of electoral votes.
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Project 2025 refers to a controversial plan drafted by the conservative Heritage Foundation to overhaul the U.S. government.
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Milwaukee election officials are retabulating some 34,000 ballots because the voting machine doors weren't properly secured this morning. They say the issue has been resolved but will delay results.
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The Associated Press can't call any races until polls close in their respective state. Here's a breakdown of when that will happen.
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If reelected, Trump would only be the second president to serve non-consecutive terms after Grover Cleveland in the late 1800s. Here's a look at how that happened — and who else has tried.
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Trump statues appeared next to sculptures of nude women in Portland and Philadelphia. The plaques bear the title In Honor of a Lifetime of Sexual Assault and quote Trump's Access Hollywood remarks.
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Two Yankees fans were ejected from Game 4 of the World Series for trying to pry a ball out of a Dodgers player’s glove. It's a particularly brazen instance of fan interference, but far from the first.
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Two politically pointed statues have mysteriously appeared in the nation’s capital in the leadup to the election: a pile of poop on the former House speaker's desk and a hand holding a tiki torch.
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The man was detained on suspicion of fraud by false representation and handling stolen goods in the theft of roughly 48,500 pounds of the high-value cheddar.