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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Hope Hicks is the latest in the White House orbit known publicly to have contracted COVID-19.
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Democrats and Republicans were split in their public reaction to President Trump's recent remarks.
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The move comes after a weekend incident that led to him being involuntarily hospitalized by police.
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Referring to a report that the FDA plans to tighten requirements for a vaccine, Trump said, "That sounds like a political move."
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Earlier in the day, the president said he expects this year's election results to go to the Supreme Court, defending his push to swiftly replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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There had been speculation about whether retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander would break with party leaders and call for a delay until after the election.
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The Democratic presidential nominee asks Republicans to "follow your conscience" and not consider a nominee until after the election.
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"Today we as a nation mourn the loss of Justice Ginsburg," Marc Short said on CNN. "But the decision of when to nominate does not lie with her."
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The feminist icon's death left a vacancy in the court just 46 days before the Nov. 3 general election.
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The president has contradicted health experts, and now his own ambitious timeline, for a vaccine against COVID-19.