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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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. -
News"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. -
NewsRep. Jamie Raskin played a series of video clips showing the former president encouraging or excusing violence against his perceived political opponents. -
NewsSen. Mike Lee grew visibly upset in accusing House impeachment managers of misattributing quotes to him. -
NewsSenators on both sides of the aisle were visibly affected by graphic and explicit new footage that included police body camera video and surveillance footage. -
NewsThe former president remains confident in his legal representation, senior adviser Jason Miller said, despite critiques of camp's early defense. -
NewsLouisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy criticized Trump's legal team as having bungled the argument against the constitutionality of the impeachment trial. Other Republican lawmakers agreed. -
NewsThe gist of the former Montgomery County district attorney's remarks hinged on the argument that Democrats were responding in a partisan way to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection. -
NewsPresident Biden has called to more than double the federal minimum wage as part of his economic relief plan. -
NewsThe Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol exposed a number of security shortfalls at the seat of American democracy. Acting Chief Yogananda Pittman released a video statement Friday evening.
