Daniel Wu

Washington, D.C.

Morning Mix reporter

Education: Stanford University, BA in History and MA in Communications

Daniel Wu is a reporter on The Washington Post's Morning Mix team. He joined The Post as an intern on the Metro desk in 2022 and previously worked for the Seattle Times and the San Jose Mercury News. Wu studied history and communications at Stanford University, where he also wrote and edited for The Stanford Daily.
Latest from Daniel Wu

To beat the heat, an Arizona man offers free water. His HOA is fining him.

David Martin faces hundreds of dollars in fines from his Goodyear, Ariz., homeowner’s association for leaving a cooler in his driveway to offer free water to passersby.

September 4, 2024
David Martin stands next to the water cooler from which he offers free water bottles outside his Goodyear, Ariz., home.

Forced to close in China, a beloved bookstore finds a new home — in D.C.

Jifeng Bookstore, a rare Chinese-language bookshop in Washington, opened six years after it closed in Shanghai amid pressure from Chinese authorities.

September 4, 2024
Maryland Del. Chao Wu examines photos on the walls of JF Books as it celebrates its grand opening on Sunday.

A soldier abused young girls. The Army could have stopped him, lawsuit alleges.

Rashad Parkinson pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting three underage girls while at Fort Cavazos, Tex. The Army was slow to investigate his crimes, families alleged.

September 2, 2024
The welcome sign in Fort Hood, Tex., in 2013, which has since been renamed Fort Cavazos.

N.H. official must pay $200K after drag queens settle defamation case

New Hampshire Rep. David Love (R) agreed to pay two drag queens $100,000 each and publicly apologize for remarks he made about them.

August 26, 2024
Robert Champion performs as his drag queen persona Monique Toosoon.

In narrow ruling, Arkansas Supreme Court keeps abortion off the ballot

The court ruled that Arkansans for Limited Government made a paperwork error, disqualifying a petition on abortion rights that earned over 100,000 signatures.

August 22, 2024
Supporters and opponents of a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas’s abortion ban hold signs outside the old Supreme Court chamber at the state Capitol in Little Rock on July 5.

She died in a hospital. Her mom wasn’t told for a year, lawsuit alleges.

Staff did not tell Jessie Peterson’s family about her death for more than a year after she died at a hospital in Sacramento, California, the lawsuit alleges.

August 21, 2024
A year after staff at a Sacramento hospital told Ginger Congi that her daughter had been discharged, Congi allegedly learned that her daughter had actually been in a morgue. (iStock)

London street cleaner wins dream vacation in a contest made just for him

A beloved street sweeper in South London wasn’t allowed to accept a holiday trip gifted by his town, so a special “contest” just for him was set up instead.

August 15, 2024
Paul Spiers, a street cleaner in the South London suburb of Beckenham, won a specifically-crafted 'contest' to deliver him a dream holiday to Portugal after he was forbidden from receiving donations from his town.

Ohio officer charged with murder after fatally shooting pregnant woman

Police officer Connor Grubb was charged with murder after shooting and killing Ta’Kiya Young in a grocery store parking lot last year.

August 13, 2024
A still image from body-cam video shows an officer pointing his gun at Ta'Kiya Young before shooting her through a car windshield in Blendon Township, Ohio, on Aug. 24. The video was pixelated by the source. (Blendon Township Police/AP/File)

Earth’s biggest iceberg is caught in a spin cycle

A frigid vortex is slowing the iceberg’s journey north to warmer waters, where most icebergs in the region eventually drift before disintegrating.

August 12, 2024

Virginia man charged with threatening to torture and kill Harris, DOJ says

Frank Carillo of Winchester, Va., allegedly threatened Vice President Harris and other officials on social media and posted about firearms and committing shootings.

August 6, 2024