Liz Halloran
Liz Halloran joined NPR in December 2008 as Washington correspondent for Digital °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ, taking her print journalism career into the online news world.
Halloran came to NPR from US °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ & World Report, where she followed politics and the 2008 presidential election. Before the political follies, Halloran covered the Supreme Court during its historic transition — from Chief Justice William Rehnquist's death, to the John Roberts and Samuel Alito confirmation battles. She also tracked the media and wrote special reports on topics ranging from the death penalty and illegal immigration, to abortion rights and the aftermath of the Amish schoolgirl murders.
Before joining the magazine, Halloran was a senior reporter in the Hartford Courant's Washington bureau. She followed Sen. Joe Lieberman on his ground-breaking vice presidential run in 2000, as the first Jewish American on a national ticket, wrote about the media and the environment and covered post-9/11 Washington. Previously, Halloran, a Minnesota native, worked for The Courant in Hartford. There, she was a member of Pulitzer Prize-winning team for spot news in 1999, and was honored by the New England Associated Press for her stories on the Kosovo refugee crisis.
She also worked for the Republican-American newspaper in Waterbury, Conn., and as a cub reporter and paper delivery girl for her hometown weekly, the Jackson County Pilot.
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With the Supreme Court declaring the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, the next move will likely be executive action by President Obama to equalize federal marriage benefits. -
A biological father can have his rights terminated despite the Indian Child Welfare Act, the court says. -
The Supreme Court may soon decide if the federal government will recognize same-sex marriage, a decision with profound implications for unions between American citizens and their foreign-born spouses. The family of one Washington, D.C.-area couple is "watching for that decision big time." -
A dramatic faceoff on Capitol Hill, involving two generals and two female senators, appeared to only deepen the chasm between the four-star brass and those who want significant change in a system that has failed victims for decades. -
Five-term Sen. Frank Lautenberg leaves a legacy of fighting for mass transit, smoking bans on airplanes and gun control. -
The Minnesota lawmaker parlayed a cable-ready presence and unshakable, if often untrue, message to national stature. -
Could New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's presidential aspirations be damaged by his friendly relationship with President Obama? -
Sens. Tom Coburn and James Inhofe have become the faces of pushback on federal emergency spending. Now the deadly and devastating tornado in their home state has put them in an awkward position. -
Women on the Senate and House Armed Services committees are leveraging their clout in response to the problem of sexual assaults in the military. -
Pew survey finds Americans place gridlock blame largely on GOP, but there's good news and bad news for Obama, Democrats and Republicans
