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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President-elect Joe Biden said he plans to take a vaccine publicly in an effort to promote trust. Vice President Pence and his team are discussing options for how and when he will take it, too.
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On the day electors around the country voted to reaffirm his victory, President-elect Joe Biden also called for unity and healing.
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Lloyd Austin, a retired Army general, would be the first African American in the job. But confirming Austin to the top civilian spot in the Defense Department would require a waiver.
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Health experts, industry leaders and state legislators gather as the administration prepares to roll out a COVID-19 vaccine in the coming months.
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The president-elect also told CNN on Thursday he would ask Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days of his administration.
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The certification vote follows weeks of attempts by President Trump to overturn his opponent's win. Three members voted in favor of certification, and one abstained.
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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended President Trump's decision not to concede defeat to President-elect Joe Biden in a briefing on Friday.
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Georgia's secretary of state told NPR about efforts by national party leaders to lean on him over ballots. He has defended his office and the state's practices amid scrutiny and criticism.
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Among the staffers named: Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond will lead Biden's Office of Public Engagement, and Jen O'Malley Dillon, his campaign manager, will become deputy chief of staff.
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President-elect Joe Biden focused his plan for rescuing the pandemic-battered U.S. economy on getting the coronavirus under control.