Obed Manuel
Obed Manuel works as a digital editor for Morning Edition. He edits and writes digital articles, both original and those based on broadcast stories.
Prior to joining NPR, he worked as an audience editor at Colorado Public Radio and as editor of Denverite, a digital-first daily news site focused on the Denver metro. While there, he contributed to multiple award-winning efforts, including a national award for enterprise reporting from the Public Media Journalists Association about Colorado’s affordable housing crisis.
Manuel has also worked as a reporter for The Dallas Morning News, covering immigration policy, the city’s Hispanic/Latinx population, and daily city news. While there, he broke the story of Francisco Galicia, a U.S. citizen who was detained in a border facility for nearly a month in squalid conditions, which garnered national and international attention and led to Galicia’s release.
He has written for the Dallas Observer, Central Track, Latina Lista and The Texas Observer. He was also part of the inaugural class of Report for America, a nonprofit effort aimed at bolstering local news.
Born in Mexico, Manuel grew up in Oak Cliff, a neighborhood of Dallas, TX. He graduated from the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas. [Copyright 2025 NPR]
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The Democratic House Minority Leader tells NPR Americans will pressure Congress to extend Obamacare subsidies as they realize their health care costs are going up. -
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia says shutdown can end if Trump engages more earnestly in negotiations. -
Sen. Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin, has a plan for how to avoid shutdown showdown negotiations, but it wouldn't be popular with Congress' "uniparty," he told NPR. -
Hasan Piker, the popular leftist streamer on Twitch, worries the U.S. will end up in "an authoritarian nightmare" if the Trump administration succeeds in punishing speech it deems unacceptable. -
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says the only "chaos" on Chicago's streets is coming from federal immigration agents carrying our aggressive enforcement. -
Maryland Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen says the law doesn't give President Trump more power to fire people during a shutdown and White House plans to do so are "vindictive." -
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Trump administration has to look at ways to "save money in a responsible way that respects the American taxpayer's money" during shutdown. -
Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, says health care spending cuts hurt people regardless of party affiliation and that he is "hoping against hope" that the GOP and White House will negotiate. -
Most of the federal government is shut down after Congress failed to reach a funding agreement. We asked two House members — a Democrat and Republican — where they think talks go from here -
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren says Democrats don't want to shut the government down, but "sometimes you gotta stand and fight."
