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.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to culture writer Adrienne Matei about a new model of masculinity that's emerging on TV among America's cartoon dads.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to former Ukrainian deputy health minister Mladena Kachurets about the brutal cold millions of Ukrainians are facing without power to heat their homes.
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The OPEC Plus group of oil producers, which includes Russia, meets Sunday on the eve of new Western efforts to curb Russia's oil revenues.
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In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams plans to move homeless people with seeming mental illness to hospitals, possibly involuntarily.
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Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Colorado Springs councilmember Nancy Henjum about the shooting at Club Q nightclub there.
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The latest on a shooting at a nightclub in Colorado Springs, CO. Police report at least 5 dead.
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Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Stephanie Baker, senior writer at Bloomberg News, about the complications involved in seizing and maintaining superyachts owned by sanctioned Russian billionaires.
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After conducting an online poll, Twitter's new owner Elon Musk says he's reinstating the account of former president Donald Trump.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with director Lee Overtree and voice actor Eric Bauza about their holiday podcast for kids, "Bugs and Daffy's Thanksgiving Adventure."
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It was nothing but sunny days for crypto at this time last year - But those days are long gone and with one of the world's biggest crypto exchanges filing for bankruptcy on Friday.