Ayesha Rascoe
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House correspondent for NPR. She is currently covering her third presidential administration. Rascoe's White House coverage has included a number of high profile foreign trips, including President Trump's 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and President Obama's final NATO summit in Warsaw, Poland in 2016. As a part of the White House team, she's also a regular on the NPR Politics Podcast.
Prior to joining NPR, Rascoe covered the White House for Reuters, chronicling Obama's final year in office and the beginning days of the Trump administration. Rascoe began her reporting career at Reuters, covering energy and environmental policy news, such as the 2010 BP oil spill and the U.S. response to the Fukushima nuclear crisis in 2011. She also spent a year covering energy legal issues and court cases.
She graduated from Howard University in 2007 with a B.A. in journalism.
-
In Wyoming and Colorado, people expressed anger and exasperation at members of Congress who held town halls.
-
People in Lebanon say they're in a state of panic after Israel struck parts of the country Saturday in response to rocket fire at northern Israel.
-
The Wall Street Journal's Michelle Hackman tells NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about the "extreme vetting" tactics international visitors say U.S. border officials are employing.
-
Buy-now-pay-later offers are multiplying online. The form of credit has advantages but can also tempt people to spend more than they should.
-
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Bob the Drag Queen about his new book, "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert," in which Tubman returns to life and wants to use hip-hop to spread her message.
-
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with video game designer and UC Santa Cruz professor A.M. Darke, about her work on a new computer algorithm that more accurately illustrates Black hair.
-
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Raphael Cormack about his new book, "Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age: A Forgotten History of the Occult."
-
A look at Florida and Illinois shows how legislatures in the country's often polarized state politics are responding to the Trump administration. States hold a lot of power over what gets done.
-
President Trump has established a cryptocurrency reserve. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Bloomberg reporter Zeke Faux about what it's intended to do, and why it may not work that way.
-
An NPR investigation finds problems with the federal court system and a deep culture of fear about reporting judges for abusive behavior and sexual harassment.