Tim Mak
Tim Mak is NPR's Washington Investigative Correspondent, focused on political enterprise journalism.
His reporting interests include the 2020 election campaign, national security and the role of technology in disinformation efforts.
He appears regularly on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and the NPR Politics Podcast.
Mak was one of NPR's lead reporters on the Mueller investigation and the Trump impeachment process. Before joining NPR, Mak worked as a senior correspondent at The Daily Beast, covering the 2016 presidential elections with an emphasis on national security. He has also worked on the Politico Defense team, the Politico breaking news desk and at the Washington Examiner. He has reported abroad from the Horn of Africa and East Asia.
Mak graduated with a B.A. from McGill University, where he was a valedictorian. He also currently holds a national certification as an Emergency Medical Technician.
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Alan Gross, an American who was detained in a Cuban prison for several years, tells NPR that Sen. Bernie Sanders visited him in detention and remarked he didn't understand why others criticized Cuba. -
The Senate acquitted President Trump in an impeachment trial, but two Senate GOP chairmen are investigating Hunter Biden, son of former vice president Joe Biden, related to his work in Ukraine.
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced she is asking House lawmakers to proceed with articles of impeachment against President Trump.
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The House Judiciary Committee has announced witnesses for Wednesday's impeachment inquiry hearings. House Republicans maintain that the evidence does not prove the allegations against the president.
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Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, testified that military aid to Ukraine was conditioned on political investigations and that President Trump's direction was clear.
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David Holmes told impeachment investigators that he heard Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the E.U., tell President Trump that Ukraine's president agreed to political investigations.
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GOP lawmakers broke House rules by entering a secure area where a closed-door interview was scheduled to be held. Committee rules allow only those serving on those panels conducting inquiry to attend. -
After President Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria there is a bipartisan push from lawmakers in Congress to impose tougher sanctions on Turkey.
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Lawmakers from both parties are pushing new bills sanctioning Turkey after the offensive in Syria against the Kurds. There is strong pushback to the president's moves to withdraw U.S. troops.
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President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton reportedly was trying to caution others about Rudy Giuliani's efforts in Ukraine. Giuliani is Trump's personal attorney.
