Amita Kelly
Amita Kelly is a Washington editor, where she works across beats and platforms to edit election, politics and policy news and features stories.
Previously, she was a digital editor on NPR's National and Washington Desks, where she coordinated and edited coverage for NPR.org as well as social media and audience engagement. She was also an editor and producer for NPR's 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. She 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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Despite his history of previously expressing support for abortion rights, Trump carefully courted social conservatives and became an unlikely champion of the anti-abortion-rights movement.
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"When we come across these kids, or some are older than just kids, then deport them," Joe Arpaio told NPR. "They can do a lot of good in those countries."
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New York City was rocked Monday by an explosion in the subway beneath the Port Authority. Authorities report a single suspect in custody, and no life-threatening injuries.
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Now, we're giving you an update on the story of an explosion in midtown Manhattan. Reports shortly before 8 this morning came about an explosion close to the New York Port Authority.
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The move stops short of declaring a national emergency, which the president had pledged to do.
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"It's a team like very few people have seen," Trump said of Florida and federal officials.
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Some residents of Key Largo are now being allowed back in, but the Florida Keys are still largely without power, water, medical service and cell service.
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Arpaio ignited national controversy over his detention of undocumented immigrants. He was convicted in July of criminal contempt for defying a judge's order to have his deputies stop such detentions.
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Parts of the Southwest and West are suffering through excessive heat, which is bringing problems beyond sweating and bad hair.
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Despite criticism, the first lady's attire was in keeping with the protocol of the countries she visited and the precedent set by foreign leaders who have visited them.