Amita Kelly
Amita Kelly manages national news coverage across NPR.org and other digital platforms.
Previously, she was a digital editor on NPR's Washington Desk, where she managed election, politics, and policy coverage for as well as social media and audience engagement.
She was also an editor and producer for NPR's mid-day newsmagazine program Tell Me More, where she covered health, politics, parenting, and, once, how Korea celebrates St. Patrick's Day. Kelly has also worked at Kaiser Health News and NBC News.
Kelly was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, where she earned her M.A., and earned a B.A. in English from Wellesley College. She is a native of Southern California, where even Santa surfs.
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Trump said he believed the federal government has been working well with most states in the disaster but he griped about complaints reported by some Democratic governors. -
Many of America's communities are changing, and so is how voters think about what matters most to them and whom they want their leaders to be.
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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was reportedly escorted out of the White House, while Gordon Sondland was recalled from his post as ambassador to the European Union. -
In his graduation speech, Jack Aiello, mimicking Bernie Sanders, said he had an improvement for the school cinnamon rolls: "We need to make them free. ... What we need is a cinnamon roll revolution."
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"You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our Republic for your own selfish personal, political, and partisan gain," Trump wrote in a six-page letter. -
After an abrupt end to a contentious day of debate, the panel reconvened Friday morning to pass the articles on party-line votes. The full House of Representatives is expected to vote next week. -
Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and his colleagues announced on Tuesday they're charging the president with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. -
"The fact of the matter is, this guy stood up and he was, in fact, lying," Biden said in an interview Friday evening with NPR Morning Edition host Rachel Martin. -
Anderson is expected to say that senior officials at the White House blocked State Department officials from releasing a statement that condemned Russia's action in Ukraine last year. -
"Perhaps this place and this country would be better served with a few more unexpected friendships. I know I've been blessed by one," Meadows said Thursday of the Maryland Democrat.
