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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A statement from White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the counterproposal on one of the president's chief domestic priorities did not "meet the essential needs of our country." -
The Biden administration is trying to make it easier for states to make laws that temporarily remove guns from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others. -
A spokesman for Louis DeJoy says the Department of Justice is probing "contributions made by employees who worked for him when he was in the private sector." -
Democrats kept control of the U.S. House seat left vacant by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. The victory was expected. -
The U.S. intelligence community is investigating the potential origins of the coronavirus, including the possibility that it emerged as a result of a lab accident in Wuhan, China. -
President Biden on Friday recognized retired Army Ranger Col. Ralph Puckett Jr. for his acts of valor during his service in the Korean War. -
President Biden's commitment Monday to donate doses of Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines adds to an earlier promise of 60 million doses of AstraZeneca. -
The president canceled executive actions signed by former President Donald Trump that focused on statues in the wake of protests against racism and police violence that targeted Confederate monuments. -
President Biden continues conversations with Republicans, but major hurdles persist over what items would be in an infrastructure measure, and how it might be paid for. -
Former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller is set to testify that he was cautious about allowing military intervention during the siege on Jan. 6.
