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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As federal, Capitol Hill, and D.C. authorities assess the failure to secure the U.S. Capitol, they have to turn to securing President-elect Biden's inaugural festivities.
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The entertainers will be joined by a Georgia firefighter and a Jesuit priest at the Capitol ceremony. -
The House speaker said President Trump "must go," as GOP defender Rep. Jim Jordan charged Democrats "want to cancel the president" in Wednesday's impeachment debate. Watch video of their statements. -
Officials say charges could be brought ranging from trespassing to felony murder.
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The first lady issues a statement denouncing violence and "false misleading accusations on me." -
President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in at the traditional ceremony on the West Front of the Capitol — minus the outgoing president. -
The president-elect made the remarks before introducing his choice for U.S. attorney general, Judge Merrick Garland. -
In his first remarks since the start of the insurrection, President Trump said of the extremists who stormed the Capitol, "You're very special." -
The president spoke before supporters at a rally on the Ellipse as Congress began ceremonial counting of electoral votes. -
Arizona is the first of what is expected to be at least three challenges by GOP lawmakers attempting to overturn the results of the presidential election.
