Alana Wise
Alana Wise joined WAMU in September 2018 as the 2018-2020 Audion Reporting Fellow for Guns & America. 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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Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh died at the age of 70 after being diagnosed with lung cancer. Former President Donald Trump remembered the controversial host as a "great man." -
The president spoke to CNN and a small group of socially distanced Americans about his coronavirus response. -
The trial of the former president concluded on Saturday with an acquittal of the former president. -
The former president is being tried on one article of impeachment saying he incited the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Videos shown during the proceedings may contain profanity and violence. -
The former president's attorney dug into the semantics of a phone call to Georgia's secretary of state in an effort to downplay the severity of his efforts to undermine the state's election results. -
Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump equated instances of violence and rioting that broke out during protests for racial justice with the Capitol insurrection. -
President Biden has called his predecessor's "Remain in Mexico" program for asylum-seekers "inhumane." Next week, a new program begins, but details are still being worked out. -
"This isn't a blood sport. It's not about entertainment. It's about reporting the facts to the American people," David Schoen told Fox News. -
Senators on both sides of the aisle were visibly affected by graphic and explicit new footage that included police body camera video and surveillance footage. -
The former president remains confident in his legal representation, senior adviser Jason Miller said, despite critiques of camp's early defense.
