Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Molly Hennessy-Fiske is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, where she has spent a decade covering foreign, national, metro and business news, including reporting rotations in Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon. She won an Overseas Press Club award in 2015, a Dart award from Columbia University in 2014, was a finalist for the Livingston Awards and Casey Medal and won state awards for her work in California, Florida, New York and North Carolina. She completed a Thomson Reuters fellowship in Lebanon in 2006 and a Pew fellowship reporting from Mexico in 2004. She has reported for newspapers in Boston, Miami, Raleigh, Schenectady, Syracuse, Washington and West Palm Beach. Hennessy-Fiske grew up in Upstate New York before attending Harvard College, graduating with a bachelor's degree in social studies in 1999. She is currently Middle East bureau chief.
Recent Articles
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In one Puerto Rico mountain town, a wall of mud came crashing down
Days after Hurricane Maria ravaged this mountain town, leaving whole neighborhoods without power, water and communications, the rain was still falling. A team of volunteers carried 89-year-old Delia Piñeda and her oxygen tank across first a cracked highway, then a river and a sea of mud to safety....
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Failing dam deepens the post-hurricane crisis in powerless Puerto Rico
The evacuation of tens of thousands of residents who live near a failing dam in northwest Puerto Rico continued Saturday, as fears of more deaths gripped the U.S. territory, days after Hurricane Maria tore across the island. Officials warned that the Guajataca Dam, about 70 miles west of San Juan,...
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Failing dam in Puerto Rico triggers evacuations in Maria's wake as death toll is expected to climb
The arrival of Hurricane Maria brought cratered homes and downed power lines, flooded streets and communities forever changed. Now, as the strongest storm to hit Puerto Rico in decades continues to churn in the Atlantic Ocean, officials must grapple with another, grim task: counting the dead. On...
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'Total destruction' in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, and more rain is on the way
Gregmarys Garcia stood atop the home she shares with her two sons, ages 5 and 3, and five other relatives. The house was surrounded by thigh-high water. The family had stockpiled bottled water and food, packing their freezer with ice. But when Hurricane Maria hit, they lost water and, like the...
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After Hurricane Maria, 'Puerto Rico isn’t going to be the same'
Officials in Puerto Rico are calling Maria the "storm of the century."
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Hurricane Maria rips through the eastern Caribbean on its way to Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands were bracing for possible catastrophe as they remained locked in the crosshairs of Hurricane Maria, a Category 5 storm that has already devastated the Caribbean island of Dominica and was continuing to gain strength Tuesday. “Now is not the time to wait,”...
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Hurricane Maria grows into a Category 5 storm and makes landfall in the storm-battered Caribbean
Hurricane Maria, a dangerous Category 5 storm, reached the island of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean on Monday night with sustained winds of 160 mph, forecasters said. It was expected to deliver destructive waves, a storm surge of up to 9 feet, flooding and mudslides along a path that the National...
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Still reeling from Irma, U.S. Virgin Islanders scramble to evacuate ahead of another hurricane
At the docks of this Caribbean outpost, families with dogs and cats in carriers waited under a blazing tropical sun beside the wrecks of pleasure boats tossed ashore by Hurricane Irma. Another hurricane, Maria, was on the way, and could hit the already ravaged island of St. John and surrounding...