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 °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ and NBC °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ. 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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The move stops short of declaring a national emergency, which the president had pledged to do. -
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. -
At a veterans event Wednesday night, about 150 protesters showed up to oppose the Senate's efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. -
Nick Lyon is the highest-ranking state official to be charged in the crisis. -
On Wednesday, the Senate majority leader threw cold water on some of Trump's plans. -
One child dressed up as President Obama. -
Speaking in Florida Thursday, Trump also criticized People writer Natasha Stoynoff's looks, arguing that he wouldn't have made a move on her. -
Julia Louis-Dreyfus issued a personal apology for the political climate and Jeb Bush called Jimmy Kimmel a "godless Hollywood hippie."
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"From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia," Clinton said Thursday in Reno, Nev. -
Donald Trump courted hard-liners on immigration in the primary campaign. But he signaled Wednesday night he'd be in favor of a path to legalization for some immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
