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Norah O'Donnell appears on NBC News broadcasts including NBC Nightly News, Today, and MSNBC. Prior to being named White House correspondent, she had been NBC News' Congressional correspondent. She has also worked as a news analyst for MSNBC. She has covered a number of major breaking news stories for both NBC and MSNBC, including the September 11 terrorist attacks. She traveled extensively with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and reported on the war in Afghanistan and the war on terrorism. She has also reported on the Republican primaries, the Republican and Democratic conventions, and the Florida recount battle. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Ms. O'Donnell has been an anchor on MSNBC for election night. She has also been a staff writer for Roll Call, and the Capitol Hill newspaper where she covered Congress. She has traveled across the country to cover numerous House and Senate contests. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Ms. O'Donnell received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Breaking News Coverage. Washingtonian Magazine has named her as one of Washington's 100 most powerful women. She has also been listed in the Irish American Magazine's 2000 Top 100 Irish Americans list. [CR-LF][CR-LF]Ms. O'Donnell is a native of San Antonio, Texas, and lives in Washington, D.C. O'Donnell has both a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in international affairs from Georgetown University. She is married with twins.

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