Colin Dwyer
Colin Dwyer covers breaking news for NPR. He reports on a wide array of subjects 鈥� from politics in and the , to the latest developments in and .
Colin began his work with NPR on the Arts Desk, where he and produced stories on arts and culture, then went on to write a daily roundup of news in literature and the publishing industry for the Two-Way blog 鈥� named , naturally.
Later, as a producer for the Digital News desk, he wrote and edited feature news coverage, curated NPR's home page and managed its social media accounts. During his time on the desk, he co-created NPR's live headline contest "Head to Head," with Camila Domonoske, and won the American Copy Editors Society's annual headline-writing prize in 2015.
These days, as a reporter for the News Desk, he writes for NPR.org, reports for the network's on-air newsmagazines, and regularly hosts NPR's daily Facebook Live segment, "Newstime." He has covered , and unfortunate , among many other stories. He also had about shoes once on Invisibilia.
Colin graduated from Georgetown University with a master's degree in English literature.
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At least, that's how it will look to someone craning their head aloft. On the winter solstice, the pair of gas giants will appear closer to each other in the night sky than they have in centuries. -
Army Gen. Gustave Perna told reporters that distribution of the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech has begun, with shipment to 636 sites scheduled to begin on Monday. -
The president vowed to "fight on" after the nation's highest court tossed a Texas lawsuit challenging the election results. The reaction from his congressional allies, however, was much more subdued. -
The Trump campaign paid $3 million to get recounts in two heavily Democratic counties in Wisconsin. The effort backfired in Milwaukee County, at least, where Biden expanded his margin of victory. -
Cambridge University Library said Tuesday that two of the naturalist's notebooks have been missing for nearly two decades. Now, the library has told local police that they "have likely been stolen." -
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its recommendations one week before the holiday, advising that Americans be careful amid an explosion in the spread of the coronavirus. -
The attorney general said Trump removed Geoffrey Berman as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. But the president quickly sought to distance himself from the decision. -
Gov. Tim Walz is fully mobilizing the state's National Guard 鈥� "an action that has never been taken in [the Guard's] 164-year history" 鈥� to prepare for a fifth night of protests. -
The Supreme Court has rejected a California church's attempt to overturn the state's coronavirus restrictions on in-person religious services. -
Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer who planted a knee on the black man's neck, has been detained by state officials. For days, a video of the arrest has elicited fury across the country. -
Prosecutors say a probe of the black man's death while in police custody is underway and federal charges are possible. Violent protests erupted for a third night. -
The coronavirus pandemic has made a day of contrasts 鈥� between joy and commemoration 鈥� feel even more confusing.
