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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Attorneys representing former President Donald Trump equated instances of violence and rioting that broke out during protests for racial justice with the Capitol insurrection.
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The former president remains confident in his legal representation, senior adviser Jason Miller said, despite critiques of camp's early defense. -
President Joe Biden's core group of advisers is more racially diverse and has more women than those of former Presidents Donald Trump or Barack Obama. See a list of the picks and their experience.
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The former president is accused of having incited a mob of his supporters on Jan. 6, leading to the insurrection at the Capitol. -
The new administration and their families were escorted to the executive mansion after traveling to Arlington National Cemetery to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. -
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in as president and vice president of the United States on Wednesday. Follow live special coverage throughout the day. -
The president-elect on Thursday evening outlined his plan for coronavirus relief — one of the core issues he hopes to tackle in his first days of office. -
Several lawmakers were visibly upset Tuesday by the new security system at the Capitol complex that requires them to walk through metal detectors, following last week's deadly insurrection. -
"I do not believe that such a course of action is in the best interest of our Nation or consistent with our Constitution," the vice president wrote on Tuesday evening. -
Chao said she was "deeply troubled" by the violence on Wednesday, which she described in a letter to colleagues as "traumatic and entirely avoidable."
