Alana Wise
Alana Wise joined WAMU in September 2018 as the 2018-2020 Audion Reporting Fellow for . Selected as one of 10 recipients nationwide of the Audion Reporting Fellowship, Alana works in the WAMU newsroom as part of a national reporting project and is spending two years focusing on the impact of guns in the Washington region.
Prior to joining WAMU, Wise was a politics and later companies news reporter at Reuters, where she covered the 2016 presidential election and the U.S. airline industry. Ever the fan of cherry blossoms and unpredictable weather, Alana, an Atlanta native and Howard University graduate, can be found roaming the city admiring puppies and the national monuments, in that order.
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The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee called on the nation to better empathize with the pain of black Americans in the wake of the death of the black man by a white police officer. -
Trump has defended his refusal to wear a mask, arguing that he and those around him are routinely tested for the coronavirus. -
His request comes days after the acting director of national intelligence released a list of Obama-era officials who potentially received intelligence connected to Michael Flynn. -
"As a society, we should do everything we can to provide relief to those who are suffering for the public good," the head of the Federal Reserve will tell a Senate committee. -
The attorney general tells reporters that U.S. Attorney John Durham's inquiry on "potential criminality is focused on others." -
The president says he hopes the initiative will develop a treatment for COVID-19 by early next year, a timeline that experts have called optimistic. -
Republican Mike Garcia will hold the House seat that Democrats flipped in 2018 through the end of the year. This fall, he will again face off against Democrat Christy Smith for a full two-year term. -
The HEROES Act includes aid for state and local governments and hazard pay for front-line workers. The Democratic-controlled House could vote as soon as Friday on the measure.
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Staffers in the West Wing have been directed to wear face masks in the White House, except when at their own desks, a Trump administration official tells NPR. -
The president attended a Monday coronavirus briefing, but the vice president did not. They were last seen together at the White House on Thursday.
