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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The president said he will move to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years of an active U.S. military presence in the country. -
Evans, killed in an attack earlier this month, is only the sixth U.S. Capitol Police officer to have died in the line of duty. -
Advocates face steep odds getting a new ban through Congress. If they can succeed, they hope to avoid a repeat of past mistakes that left the original law open to loopholes. -
The New York Times reported the Florida Republican is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him. -
The White House on Tuesday unveiled actions to reverse the rising violent crimes against the AAPI community. Advocates and Asian American leaders have pressed the administration to do more. -
President Biden is doubling his original COVID-19 vaccination goal to 200 million shots in arms by his 100th day in office. -
The move comes as a flood of migrants to the southern border has tested the Biden administration's handling of immigration issues. -
Julia Letlow won a special election to fill the congressional seat left vacant when her husband died. In another Louisiana district, Democrats Troy Carter and Karen Carter Peterson head to a runoff. -
The president said he would announce his next vaccination goal next week. "We need millions more to get vaccinated," Biden said. -
The San Antonio man faces several weapons charges after police recovered a rifle and ammunition from his vehicle.
