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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Whether Republicans will try to resurrect health care efforts — again — is uncertain. Republican Sen. John McCain, who cast the decisive no vote, said the bill's defeat is a chance to "start fresh." -
Speaking to The New Yorker, Anthony Scaramucci seems to blame Reince Priebus for "leaks," notably a report about his financial disclosure forms that was based on what were actually public records. -
Six weeks after being shot while practicing baseball with other Republican lawmakers, Rep. Steve Scalise has been discharged from the hospital.
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As congressional scrutiny of Russian interference expands, the panel began looking Wednesday at the advocacy of foreign governments — though key witnesses did not appear as originally planned.
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Tuesday's vote was on a procedural step that opens the door to formal debate — but on what remains to be seen. -
Spicer had an embattled tenure as the president's lead spokesman. At Friday's press briefing, incoming White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci appeared on-camera and took questions. -
Jeff Sessions said he would stay in the post "as long as that is appropriate," following the president's comments to The New York Times suggesting that he regrets appointing Sessions. -
A good-government group sued the Trump administration to get the records, but it's not clear whether visitor logs are actually kept at the president's Florida resort. -
The president's son did not disclose the presence of Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist, when he provided statements and emails about the meeting to the media earlier this week. -
The president said that the June 2016 meeting was very standard and that politics "is not the nicest business."
