Brian Naylor
NPR News' Brian Naylor is a correspondent on the Washington Desk. In this role, he covers politics and federal agencies.
With more than 30 years of experience at NPR, Naylor has served as National Desk correspondent, White House correspondent, congressional correspondent, foreign correspondent, and newscaster during All Things Considered. He has filled in as host on many NPR programs, including Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and Talk of the Nation.
During his NPR career, Naylor has covered many major world events, including political conventions, the Olympics, the White House, Congress, and the mid-Atlantic region. Naylor reported from Tokyo in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, from New Orleans following the BP oil spill, and from West Virginia after the deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine.
While covering the U.S. Congress in the mid-1990s, Naylor's reporting contributed to NPR's 1996 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for political reporting.
Before coming to NPR in 1982, Naylor worked at NPR Member Station WOSU in Columbus, Ohio, and at a commercial radio station in Maine.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maine.
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Sure, there are some in Washington hoping to enrich themselves with federal contracts and to corruptly influence policy, but many are drawn, as one resident says, to make the world a better place. -
The next round of sanctions from the White House targets banks and export controls, which would cut Russia off from critical technology such as semiconductors. -
A senior U.S. military official said something was detected in recent days that sharply heightened concern that an invasion is coming. -
Fifteen boxes of presidential records were removed by the National Archives from Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence amid reports he destroyed other documents while in office. Trump has denied those reports. -
Taxpayers seeking access to some information about their taxes were to be required to submit to facial recognition software, a move that has raised privacy concerns. -
A senior administration official said that during the raid, Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi "detonated a blast ... killing himself and several others, including his wife and children." -
Biden didn't utter Trump's name but referred repeatedly to him with forceful, and at times personal, denunciations of his actions. "He's not just a former president. He's a defeated former president." -
The U.S. government will buy a half-billion at-home COVID test kits and mail them to people who want them, with deliveries beginning in January. -
Senate Majority Leader Schumer said the Senate will take up the measure "very early" in the new year. -
The former lawmaker and presidential candidate was remembered by his former colleagues, including President Biden. He died on Dec. 5 at the age of 98. -
The White House says the president will veto the bill if it reaches his desk. But GOP lawmakers pushed the measure as the political fight over vaccine mandates deepens. -
The roughly $2 trillion House-passed measure awaits Senate action. The Senate majority leader says he'd like to try to finish by Christmas.
