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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Dr. Fauci's testimony had been requested by the House Appropriations Committee as part of an investigation into the the COVID-19 response. The White House called the request "counter-productive." -
The House Judiciary Committee has threatened to subpoena Amazon founder Jeff Bezos if he does not voluntarily address the company possibly misleading Congress in earlier testimony. -
Trump has also attributed the high number of cases in the U.S. to heightened testing. But testing in the U.S. is still not adequate or widespread enough to know who has coronavirus. -
Vice President Pence said Tuesday that he was following CDC guidelines in not wearing a face mask during public appearances since he is frequently tested for the coronavirus. -
The 2016 Democratic nominee for president endorsed Biden in the November face-off against President Trump during a live stream event on Tuesday. -
President Trump has signed the latest economic relief package, this one aimed at small businesses and hospitals. -
The president said he thought the move to re-open businesses like hair salons and tattoo parlors was premature in the face of the continuing coronavirus pandemic. -
The biggest item in the $484 billion measure is roughly $321 billion in additional funding for a small-business loan program. President Trump signed the legislation on Friday. -
President Trump seems to be itching for states to reopen — frankly, faster than his own administration's guidelines recommend. -
Attorney General William Barr said the Justice Department would consider legal consequences against states that continue to impose strict coronavirus restrictions.
