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Washington correspondent

Ariana covers the nation’s capital for States Newsroom. Her areas of coverage include politics and policy, lobbying, elections and campaign finance. Before joining States Newsroom, Ariana covered public health and chemical policy on Capitol Hill for E&E News. As a Florida native, she’s worked for the Miami Herald and her hometown paper, the Tampa Bay Times. Her work has also appeared in the Chicago Tribune and NPR. She is a graduate of the University of Florida.

Health insurance companies may no longer need to cover a wide swath of preventive health care services that were required by the 2010 Affordable Care Act.

Questions of authority, standing and fairness at issue.

As the Biden administration prepares to defend its student debt cancellation program before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, data shows that Black borrowers…

President Joe Biden at an annual meeting with county leaders on Tuesday said there is much more work to be done on gun control…

Measure is meant to help halt mass killings that have plagued the nation.

While members of Congress may not be able to speak during the State of the Union address, they often get their message across through…

The Congressional Black Caucus met with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday evening to urge the administration to use its…

Following a mass shooting on the eve of Lunar New Year in which 11 people in a predominantly Asian neighborhood in California were killed,…

Immigration advocates have lobbied Democrats for weeks to pass legislation to give DACA recipients a permanent pathway to citizenship. 

A younger and more diverse caucus heading to Capitol Hill.