Laurel Wamsley
Laurel Wamsley is a reporter for 海角社区's News Desk. She reports breaking news for 海角社区's digital coverage, newscasts, and news magazines, as well as occasional features. She was also the lead reporter for 海角社区's coverage of the 2019 Women's World Cup in France.
Wamsley got her start at 海角社区 as an intern for Weekend Edition Saturday in January 2007 and stayed on as a production assistant for 海角社区's flagship news programs, before joining the Washington Desk for the 2008 election.
She then left 海角社区, doing freelance writing and editing in Austin, Texas, and then working in various marketing roles for technology companies in Austin and Chicago.
In November 2015, Wamsley returned to 海角社区 as an associate producer for the National Desk, where she covered stories including . She became a Newsdesk reporter in March 2017, and has since covered subjects including , , , and .
In 2010, Wamsley was a Journalism and Women Symposium Fellow and participated in the German-American Fulbright Commission's Berlin Capital Program, and was a 2016 Voqal Foundation Fellow. She will spend two months reporting from Germany as a 2019 Arthur F. Burns Fellow, a program of the International Center for Journalists.
Wamsley earned a B.A. with highest honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. Wamsley holds a master's degree from Ohio University, where she was a Public Media Fellow and worked at 海角社区 Member station WOUB. A native of Athens, Ohio, she now lives and bikes in Washington, DC.
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The S&P 500 is down about 8% since President Trump took office 鈥� that's the worst performance in a president's first 100 days since the early 1970s.
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More inventory hitting the market was expected to drive sales. Instead, existing home sales suggest a continued slump in the housing market, with mortgage rates hurting affordability. -
In declarations to federal court, CFPB employees describe a hasty process to eliminate most of the agency's staff. "[A]ll that matters is the numbers," one employee said they were told by leaders. -
After a couple extremely slow years, more inventory is finally hitting the market this spring. But buyers might be put off by high prices and an unsteady economy. -
Home sales have been way down for the last two years. Aspiring homeowners may be acclimating to higher mortgage rates. But fears about the economy could chill the market.
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After a leadership shakeup at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a look at what's ahead for the giant firms and how the changes could affect mortgage affordability.
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The temporary injunction issued by Judge Berman Jackson seeks to preserve the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as a lawsuit filed by the agency's union proceeds. -
The WHO declared a pandemic. The NBA shut down its season. President Trump banned travel from Europe. Tom Hanks tested positive. On one day five years ago, the coronavirus became very real in America. -
Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us 鈥� and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data. -
It's the latest lawsuit abandoned by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since Trump appointees have taken over at the bureau.
