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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The U.S. Postal Service awarded a contract for new mail delivery trucks earlier this year. A runner-up says the USPS favored its competitor all along.
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The indictment comes after a three-year investigation into the business dealings of the former president's family business by the Manhattan district attorney's office.
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President Biden has signed legislation making Juneteenth, when enslaved people in Texas were told of their freedom in 1865, a federal holiday. It will be commemorated for the first time Friday.
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Vice President Harris met Tuesday with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in her trip to assess the root causes pushing migrants to seek asylum at the U.S. border.
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The vice president met with Guatemala's president to talk about the root causes behind migration to the United States, including corruption. But another prominent Democrat called that "disappointing."
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The Biden administration gave federal agencies a mid-July deadline to submit plans for calling their employees back to the office, and says White House employees are expected back at work by then.
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The action, the first of several planned steps by the federal government, follows the ransomware hack of the Colonial Pipeline.
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The TSA is one of federal agencies overseeing security of the nation's pipelines. Critics say the TSA is understaffed and needs to do more than set voluntary guidelines for the industry to follow.
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There are more than 30,000 post office branches across the United States. Most do make money, but thousands, mostly in rural areas, cost more to operate than they take in.
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In celebrating the milestone, the president also announced the administration would begin offering tax credits to employers who give workers time off to get vaccinated.