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Michael Loria
National Reporter
Michael Loria is a national reporter on the USA TODAY breaking news desk. He is from Virginia and wrote previously for local news outlets in Washington, D.C. and in Chicago through Report for America, a program that places journalists into local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues. He is based in Chicago.