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 three-person panel on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an extension by Secretary of State Steve Simon to accommodate voters who may have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Democrats boycotted the vote, pointing to what they called the damage she would do to health care, and reproductive and voting rights, and the fact the vote took place amid the presidential election.
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The president's remarks come just two weeks before the Nov. 3 election, in which he faces a steep uphill reelection battle against Democratic rival Joe Biden.
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This decision comes after a chaotic first debate that was widely criticized for its largely unstructured nature. President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden are set to face off on Thursday.
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The president's remarks came during a call intended to discuss strategy for the Nov. 3 election. Trump has been at loggerheads with public health experts on how best to contain the pandemic.
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At the same time but on different networks, the candidates answered questions about a range of issues, including the coronavirus pandemic, which was part of the reason for the separate events.
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The second face-off of the general election season was scheduled for next week in Miami.
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The White House said Friday it would give an update when the president tests negative and is cleared by his medical team. His doctor said Thursday he expected Trump would be good to go by the weekend.
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The White House accused Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of "sowing division by making these outlandish allegations" in her remarks Thursday.
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In explaining the court's decision, Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that it was the bench's longstanding position not to alter state voting rules this close to an election.