
Claudia Grisales
Claudia Grisales is a congressional reporter assigned to NPR's Washington Desk.
Before joining NPR in June 2019, she was a Capitol Hill reporter covering military affairs for Stars and Stripes. She also covered breaking news involving fallen service members and the Trump administration's relationship with the military. She also investigated service members who have undergone toxic exposures, such as the atomic veterans who participated nuclear bomb testing and subsequent cleanup operations.
Prior to Stars and Stripes, Grisales was an award-winning reporter at the daily newspaper in Central Texas, the Austin American-Statesman, for 16 years. There, she covered the intersection of business news and regulation, energy issues and public safety. She also conducted a years-long probe that uncovered systemic abuses and corruption at Pedernales Electric Cooperative, the largest member-owned utility in the country. The investigation led to the ousting of more than a dozen executives, state and U.S. congressional hearings and criminal convictions for two of the co-op's top leaders.
Grisales is originally from Chicago and is an alum of the University of Houston, the University of Texas and Syracuse University. At Syracuse, she attended the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she earned a master's degree in journalism.
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Teacher Arnulfo Reyes was inside a Robb Elementary classroom when the Uvalde shooting began. He was repeatedly shot and spent more than a month in the hospital. Now, he's recounting what happened.
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A former White House aide told the House Jan. 6 committee that President Trump knew the crowd was armed and tried overpowering a secret service agent to go to the Capitol.
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The House Jan. 6 committee released testimony alleging that some Republican members of Congress sought pardons from then-President Donald Trump for their roles in trying to subvert the 2020 elections.
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Members of the Jan. 6 committee are pursuing additional witnesses and say they are receiving a lot of new evidence. Their public hearings are now going to extend into July.
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The House Jan. 6 committee heard testimony from state officials and election workers testifying about pressure from President Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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Recent hearings by the Jan. 6 committee have focused on whether former President Donald Trump knowingly tried to subvert the 2020 election.
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The Jan. 6 panel heard testimony from former President Donald Trump's campaign manager in a hearing on Trump's awareness that he lost in 2020 and his effort to push the lie that he won in spite of it.
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During a hearing last night in prime time, the House Select Committee investigating January Six made it clear it blames former President Donald Trump for that day's deadly violence.
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It's been nearly a year of gathering information — via depositions, subpoenas, hearings, document dumps and court challenges — for the House select committee investigating the siege of the Capitol.
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The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection will launch a series of hearings Thursday. Committee members say they'll be telling the fuller story of the siege through videos and images.