Alana Wise
Alana Wise is a politics reporter on the Washington desk at NPR.
Before joining NPR, Alana covered beats including American gun culture, the aviation business and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Through her reporting, Alana has covered such events as large protests, mass shootings, boardroom uprisings and international trade fights.
Alana is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., and an Atlanta native.
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Pence carried on with his usual schedule on Friday, even as a number of prominent Republicans revealed COVID-19 diagnoses on Friday. -
President Trump is 74, an age that makes him more vulnerable to the virus. The first lady, who's 50, also tested positive. -
Hope Hicks is the latest in the White House orbit known publicly to have contracted COVID-19. -
Referring to a report that the FDA plans to tighten requirements for a vaccine, Trump said, "That sounds like a political move." -
In a ceremony inside the court's Great Hall, Rabbi Lauren Holtzblatt eulogizes Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a "path-marking role model for women and girls of all ages." -
The president has contradicted health experts, and now his own ambitious timeline, for a vaccine against COVID-19. -
President Trump says there could be widespread distribution of a vaccine against the coronavirus in a much shorter timeline than described by the CDC. -
"I don't want to jump up and down and start screaming, 'Death! Death!' " the president said when asked about why he publicly downplayed the pandemic while privately acknowledging its severity. -
President Trump says he didn't want to create panic when pressed on revelations about what he knew early on about the threat of the pandemic versus what he stated publicly. -
The president has in recent weeks escalated campaign promises to deliver a vaccine by the end of the year, suggesting that a treatment against the coronavirus could be ready by the November election.
