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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People who are deaf or hard of hearing can now view an American Sign Language interpretation of the press briefings, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Monday.
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President Biden on Wednesday spoke to bringing the nation together in his first remarks as president of the United States.
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in as president and vice president of the United States on Wednesday. Follow live special coverage throughout the day.
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The president-elect on Thursday evening outlined his plan for coronavirus relief — one of the core issues he hopes to tackle in his first days of office.
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"I do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our Nation or consistent with our Constitution," the vice president wrote on Tuesday evening.
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Wolf's departure from the Trump administration, just days before the president's norm-shattering term is set to come to a close, is the latest Cabinet resignation.
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Chao said she was "deeply troubled" by the violence on Wednesday, which she described in a letter to colleagues as "traumatic and entirely avoidable."
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Members of Congress reconvened after pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol and halted election certification proceedings.
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The vice president said he believes "the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not."
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He defeated Republican David Perdue in a closely watched race, according to The Associated Press.