Elena Moore
Elena Moore is a political reporter assigned to NPR's Washington Desk. She covers breaking news at the White House, Congress and other government agencies for all NPR platforms.
She is also a leading national reporter covering young voters and youth politics. As part of NPR's 2024 election team, Moore traveled around the country reporting on emerging political trends and top issues for young Americans who hold a wide range of political viewpoints.
Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Moore covered the first Gen-Z candidates to run for Congress. During the 2020 election cycle, she did both reporting and production as a researcher for the Washington Desk. She is also a former producer of the NPR Politics Podcast.
Before coming to NPR in 2019, Moore worked at NBC News. She is a former Paul Miller Reporting Fellow at the National Press Foundation and a graduate of The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Moore is originally and proudly from Brooklyn, New York.
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Before allegations against Eric Swalwell surfaced in the media, they gained momentum online after a network of accusers came together to share stories of alleged assault by the California Democrat. -
Swalwell's resignation follows allegations of sexual assault and misconduct made by multiple women against the California Democrat. -
President Trump made a dramatic shift on Iran this week as critics within his own party pushed back on the war.
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The war with Iran has split many of President Trump's supporters, but rather than criticize the policy, some of the biggest names in the MAGA movement are criticizing Trump.
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The war with Iran has opened a rift inside of the MAGA movement. Now, some of its biggest names have gone from criticizing the war, to the rare step of criticizing President Trump himself.
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Members of the MAGA faithful gathered in Texas for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. While tensions over Iran split some attendees, Trump remained the glue holding them together. -
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference, underway in Dallas this week, is typically a MAGA pep rally of sorts. This year, the war with Iran is testing unity inside the president's base.
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The Senate has confirmed Sen. Markwayne Mullin to serve as the next secretary of Homeland Security. The Oklahoma Republican replaces Kristi Noem and takes over a department mired in controversy.
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Joe Kent joined Tucker Carlson to discuss his decision to step down as director of the National Counterterrorism Center and his opposition to the war in Iran.
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Democratic primaries in Illinois on Tuesday offered important lessons about what the party's base wants from new leaders, and how views around Israel are changing on the left.
