
Ella Nilsen
Former White House Reporter
Latest articles by Ella Nilsen
“If I can’t get a ventilator, I won’t live.”


An Amtrak train derails in Washington state, killing multiple people and injuring dozens of others; South Africa’s ruling party elects a new leader, who is likely to become president after Jacob Zuma’s term ends.


The FCC axes net neutrality rules, with dramatic implications for the internet as we know it; the Catholic Church gets called out in a damning new report about priest sex abuse scandals in Australia.


Disney buys Fox, with huge implications for the film and television industries; a committee in Irish parliament votes to legalize abortion.


Rod Rosenstein says he doesn’t plan to fire Robert Mueller anytime soon; Rwanda is pressuring France to admit its role in the 1994 genocide that killed thousands.


Rep. Marcy Kaptur apparently doesn’t approve of the Capitol Hill dress code.


Smith will also run for Franken’s Senate seat in 2018.


How local Alabama activists and the Democratic Party joined forces to elect Doug Jones.


Jones is a civil rights attorney, best known for prosecuting members of the Ku Klux Klan.


A growing number of Democrats in Congress are calling for Trump to resign, and long-delayed presidential elections in Afghanistan look like they’re going to be stalled even further.