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Shauneen Miranda

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Shauneen Miranda is a reporter for States Newsroom’s Washington bureau.

She previously covered breaking news for Axios, focusing on politics, business, health and technology.

Prior to Axios, Shauneen worked for CNN, where she facilitated live news coverage assignments for the Washington bureau reporters. Her enthusiasm for digital storytelling took off while interning for NPR’s NewsHub in the summer of 2022.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

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Trump continues rally spree in attempt to blunt Dem momentum in midterms lead-up

4:11pm ET
Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is rounding out his midterm travel blitz in the final sprint leading up to Election Day on Nov. 3. With just four days to go, the Republican Party is aiming to keep its narrow majority...
U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, speaks alongside President Donald Trump during an Oct. 19, 2026, rally at Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, Kansas. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflec
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Trump will hold in-person rallies in Iowa and Kansas after all as election nears

10:47am ET
Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rallies in Kansas and Iowa this weekend are back on after initial cancellations, States Newsroom confirmed Friday. The Midwest rallies mark the final sprint to Election Day on Nov. 3 — now just four days...
President Donald Trump speaks during an Oct. 19, 2026, rally at the Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, Kansas. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
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Trump cancels weekend Kansas and Iowa rallies 5 days ahead of election

Oct 29, 2026
Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s rally in Salina, Kansas, on Saturday is canceled, the Kansas Republican Party confirmed to States Newsroom. An appearance scheduled for Sunday in Dubuque, Iowa, was also canceled, the Republican National Committee said in a late...
Voters mark their ballots during the first day of early voting at the Bismarck Event Center in Bismarck, North Dakota, on Oct. 22, 2026. (Photo by Jack Dura/North Dakota Monitor)
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Early voting surges in midterm elections as millions cast their ballots

Oct 27, 2026
Ariana Figueroa Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — Tens of millions of Americans have already made their way to the ballot box as early voting is underway in a midterm election that will determine control of the House and the Senate, possibly flipping one or both...
President Donald Trump speaks during an Oct. 19, 2026, rally at the Heartland Credit Union Arena in Park City, Kansas. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)
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Trump set to campaign in tight US Senate contests in Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Michigan

Oct 21, 2026
Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s midterm travel blitz will continue in the coming days, with Election Day on Nov. 3 now less than two weeks out, headlining rallies in several states hosting hard-fought Senate contests seen as toss-ups. Trump began...
A National Institutes of Health researcher's lab jacket, embroidered with the NIH logo with blue chevron detail. (Photo courtesy NIH)
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Trump order sets up new women’s health research initiative at NIH, White House task force

Oct 19, 2026
Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health. The new division is set to work with the agency’s existing Office of Research on Women’s Health, which was...
President Donald Trump waves to the crowd after speaking at the Mitchell Center at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, Alabama on Oct. 2, 2026. (Photo by Dan Anderson/Alabama Reflector)
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Trump back on the road as analysts see more congressional races shifting in Dems’ favor

Oct 16, 2026
Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has a flurry of travel on deck in the final frantic weeks leading up to the end of the midterm elections, in which the GOP is vying to maintain its control of both the U.S...
Finalists in the National Civics Bee championship on Oct. 14, 2026, work on their answers to a question about gerrymandering. (Screenshot courtesy of C-SPAN)
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Colorado student wins top prize at National Civics Bee Championship

Oct 15, 2026
Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — Peter Daniell of Broomfield, Colorado, took home the grand prize Wednesday night after winning the National Civics Bee Championship in the nation’s capital. Daniell, a ninth-grader, was one of 52 students from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., looks on during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 8, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
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Democrats aiming for control of Congress vow action on healthcare, cost of living, Iran war

Oct 14, 2026
Shauneen Miranda Ariana Figueroa Ashley Murray Jonathan Shorman
WASHINGTON — Democrats are touting an ambitious legislative agenda centered on affordability and accountability if they take back the U.S. House or Senate — or both — in November. A slew of pressing policy debates are on tap for Democrats...
The U.S. Capitol on Oct. 1, 2025. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States Newsroom)
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Students to compete in civics bee championship in nation’s capital, carried on C-SPAN

Oct 13, 2026
Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — As partisan tensions rise in advance of the fast-approaching midterm elections, students will test their knowledge Wednesday in a field that’s long enjoyed bipartisan support: civics. Fifty-two middle school students hailing from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and...
DOJ sues Utah in wider push against in-state tuition for unauthorized immigrants 
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Advocates blast Trump campaign against in-state tuition for immigrants

Oct 07, 2026
Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — Leading immigration advocates and experts sounded the alarm Wednesday on the Trump administration’s sweeping efforts to undo state laws allowing some immigrants to pay in-state college tuition in the states where they reside. The U.S. Department of Justice...
North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer is holding up Trump administration nominees over a rule affecting the state’s Prairie Pothole Region, seen here in Stutsman County, North Dakota. (Photo by Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)
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Outraged over 'illegal' wetlands rule, a GOP senator blocks dozens of Trump nominees

Oct 01, 2026
Shauneen Miranda
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Keith Sonderling as secretary of Labor on Wednesday, marking one of the few Trump administration picks to get through the upper chamber recently after a North Dakota senator put a hold on...