Dana Farrington
Dana Farrington is a digital editor coordinating online coverage on the Washington Desk — from daily stories to visual feature projects to the weekly newsletter. She has been with the NPR Politics team since President Trump's inauguration. Before that, she was among NPR's first engagement editors, managing the homepage for and the main social accounts. Dana has also worked as a weekend web producer and editor, and has written on a wide range of topics for NPR, including tech and women's health.
Before joining NPR in 2011, Dana was a web producer for member station WAMU in Washington, D.C.
Dana studied journalism at New York University and got her first taste of public radio in high school on a teen radio show for KUSP in Santa Cruz, Calif.
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Former President Barack Obama has responded to the Minneapolis death that has set off protests and drawn national attention, including President Trump's. Read his full statement. -
President Trump announced on Sunday that the founder and leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a special operations mission on Saturday. -
Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron convened a joint news conference in Biarritz, France, at the end of the G-7 gathering of global economic powers. -
President Trump said he would take executive action to get information about citizenship status amid a fight over adding a question to the 2020 census.
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Rep. Richard Neal, chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, asked the IRS commissioner for six years of President Trump's personal tax returns, as well as returns for some of his businesses. -
President Trump addressed the nation from the Oval Office, pressing Congress again to provide funding for a border wall. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer refused.
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Christine Blasey Ford and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have been negotiating whether and how Ford would testify about her allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. -
"The taxpayers won't pay a dime for my seat on those planes," the health and human services secretary said on Friday. Tom Price will pay about $52,000 of the reported $400,000 cost of the trips. -
The president discussed the violent protests on Tuesday after giving two earlier statements, the second of which called out racist groups. Trump now says, "There's blame on both sides." -
The remarks come a day after he called out neo-Nazis and the KKK for the violence in Virginia over the weekend. Trump had been criticized for not mentioning those groups in his initial statement.
