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 New York Times reporter Scott Dance about efforts to reshape the Federal Emergency Management Agency. President Trump's review panel failed to meet a deadline last week.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Bankrate analyst Ted Rossman about consumer spending and debt, and what it tells us about the overall health of the economy.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to researcher Eli Stark-Elster about the imbalance of how adults supervise children in physical spaces versus digitally.
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The Palestinian militant group Hamas has been devastated by two years of fighting in Gaza. But is the organization now using a ceasefire to regroup?
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NPR's Andrew Limbong talks about some of NPR staffers' favorite plot-driven books of 2025.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Alireza Khatami about his new movie, "The Things You Kill."
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What does a trove of Jeffery Epstein's emails reveal about how he operated? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown, who's followed the Epstein case for years.
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If you're planning on buying an artificial Christmas tree this year, you may want to make your purchase sooner rather than later. -
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit the U.S. this week. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to regional expert Yasmine Farouk about what the trip means for U.S.-Saudi relations.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks three community college presidents - J.B. Buxton, Nerita Hughes, and Georgia Lorenz - how the Trump administration's war on higher education is affecting their schools.
