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 rallies will be tremendous," a campaign manager said. "You'll again see the kind of crowds and enthusiasm that Sleepy Joe Biden can only dream of." -
President Trump labeled violence that has accompanied many protests against police killings of black people as "acts of domestic terror." -
President Trump reportedly makes comments during a contentious phone call with state leaders to discuss protests following the death of George Floyd. -
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. -
Dana Nessel, attorney general for the state of Michigan, said President Trump was gambling with public health through his ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic. -
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.
