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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The move stops short of declaring a national emergency, which the president had pledged to do. -
Flash floods and heavy rain are expected to continue into early next week on the already devastated island.
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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. -
More than 6 million of the state's electricity customers were experiencing power outages as of Monday. -
Chiwoniso Luzolo has been waiting in her house since Sunday afternoon. Her deck, backyard and front yard in Cypress, Texas, outside Houston are flooded, and the water is rising. -
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. -
The planned removal of Charlottesville, Va.'s statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee stirred local controversy before fueling national flames. -
White House policy adviser Stephen Miller said the "numbers of low-skilled [immigrant] workers in particular is a major detriment to U.S. workers." -
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. -
The NYPD described the killing as an assassination "on cops assigned to keep NYers safe."
