Dana Farrington
Dana Farrington is a digital editor coordinating online coverage on the Washington Desk — from daily stories to visual feature projects to the weekly newsletter. She has been with the NPR Politics team since President Trump's inauguration. Before that, she was among NPR's first engagement editors, managing the homepage for and the main social accounts. Dana has also worked as a weekend web producer and editor, and has written on a wide range of topics for NPR, including tech and women's health.
Before joining NPR in 2011, Dana was a web producer for member station WAMU in Washington, D.C.
Dana studied journalism at New York University and got her first taste of public radio in high school on a teen radio show for KUSP in Santa Cruz, Calif.
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House Republicans are claiming President Biden benefited from foreign business deals by his son, Hunter, but they have not yet shown direct evidence of that. -
The threat of Russia invading Ukraine is real, the Biden administration insists. At the same time, top officials say they hope that being vocal about the intelligence they have could deter action. -
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kathleen Kim, the puppeteer behind Ji-Young, the show's newest Muppet. Kim, born to Korean immigrants, says she grew up watching the show herself. -
After the pandemic shut down fashion's biggest night in 2020, the Met Gala came back on the 75th anniversary of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
The Canadian tennis phenom is taking this year's U.S. Open by storm, becoming the youngest woman to reach the semifinals in 16 years. -
The federal workforce is one group President Biden can more directly influence. Under new rules, workers will need to get vaccinated or wear a mask and get tested regularly. -
The president said the upper chamber needs to pass legislation approved by the House earlier this month, which would tighten gun laws including background checks. -
The administration updated personnel policies so that past marijuana use would not automatically bar people from employment. A new report suggested staffers received mixed messages on the policy.
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The unaccompanied minors are spending an average of 117 hours in detention facilities, beyond the 72 hours allowed, according to a Department of Homeland Security document. -
The West Virginia Democratic senator said Tanden's past statements attacking lawmakers "will have a toxic and detrimental impact" on her ties with Congress if she were to lead the budget office.
