Scott Detrow
Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
Detrow joined NPR in 2015. He reported on the 2016 presidential election, then worked for two years as a congressional correspondent before shifting his focus back to the campaign trail, covering the Democratic side of the 2020 presidential campaign.
Before NPR, Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter in both Pennsylvania and California, for member stations WITF and KQED. He also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.
Detrow got his start in public radio at Fordham University's WFUV. He graduated from Fordham, and also has a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Fels Institute of Government.
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Congress is back and trying to tackle a number of pressing issues before the end of the month, including negotiations over President Biden's infrastructure and social spending packages.
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Democrats aim to wrap up their to-do list. A Florida school district will pay $25 million to the families of Parkland shooting victims. School board elections are the new political battlefields.
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Russia continues a grim streak in nearly daily milestones related to the coronavirus. The government's task force on Monday reported 34,300 new infections — its highest number to date.
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Jury selection begins in the trial of those accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. Ex-President Trump tries to stop the release of Capitol riot documents. The latest on mental health needs for children.
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Powell was the first Black chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and the first Black secretary of state. His family said he died of COVID-19 complications, though he was fully vaccinated.
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The Food and Drug Administration and the Center For Disease Control and Prevention are poised to sign-off on Johnson & Johnson and Moderna booster shots this week.
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A group of U.S.-based aid workers and their families are kidnapped in Haiti. The growth rate for China's economy has slowed. More big moves on COVID-19 vaccine boosters are expected this week.
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President Biden is working with Democrats to scale back his initial $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan. Some of the president's hallmark climate proposals could be diminished.
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Vice President Kamala Harris is attending the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, memorial event. Shanksville was the site of the Flight 93 crash.
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Former President Bush, who was in office the time of the 9/11 attacks, is attending the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, memorial. Shanksville was the site of the Flight 93 crash.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Louisiana State Health Officer Dr. Joseph Kanter and Oregon Public Health Director Rachael Banks on President Biden's strategy to slow the new surge of coronavirus cases.
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NPR's Scott Detrow talks with White House Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy about this summer's extreme weather events and how the Biden administration is trying to address climate change.