Amita Kelly
Amita Kelly is a Washington editor, where she works across beats and platforms to edit election, politics and policy news and features stories.
Previously, she was a digital editor on NPR's National and Washington Desks, where she coordinated and edited coverage for NPR.org as well as social media and audience engagement. She was also an editor and producer for NPR's newsmagazine program Tell Me More, where she covered health, politics, parenting and, once, how Korea celebrates St. Patrick's Day.
Kelly has also worked at Kaiser Health News and NBC News. She was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned her M.A., and earned a B.A. in English from Wellesley College. She is a native of Southern California, where even Santa surfs.
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After weeks of speculation, culminating in a day of intense speculation, presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump tweeted that he has chosen Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his vice presidential running mate. -
"There is absolutely nothing more frustrating, more damaging to your soul than when you know you're following the rules and being treated like you are not," said U.S. Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina.
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After Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg disparaged Donald Trump in several interviews, he fired back, saying her comments are "highly inappropriate" and "a disgrace to the court." -
Among other remarks, Donald Trump called for more unity in the country while Hillary Clinton said she mourns "for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty." -
The endorsement will come next week, a Democratic source familiar with the campaigns tells NPR's Tamara Keith. -
"How In The ___ Does Censoring This ___ Make Us ___?" one Republican congressman wrote after the FBI released a partial transcript of the Orlando shooter's 911 call. -
In his graduation speech, Jack Aiello, mimicking Bernie Sanders, said he had an improvement for the school cinnamon rolls: "We need to make them free. ... What we need is a cinnamon roll revolution."
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"Be better at everything. Be better fathers, good lord," the first lady said at the United State of Women summit.
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Donald Trump called for the president to publicly say "radical Islamic terrorism" while President Obama and Hillary Clinton called for stricter gun control measures. -
In a speech to a major evangelical confab, many Republicans still seemed skeptical of their presumptive nominee, while Democrats at a Planned Parenthood gathering were fired up about theirs.
