
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 speaks with Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck about the constitutional issues raised by the Trump administration's efforts to pause federal loans and grants last week.
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The 67th annual Grammy Awards take place Sunday evening, featuring performances by a new generation of pop stars, and a somber tone in light of the recent Los Angeles wildfires.
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Virginia Feito gets inside the twisted, bloodthirsty, and often comical head of a killer-posing-as-a-governess in the new book "Victorian Psycho."
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Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the TV show Silo, Rilo Kiley's reunion tour, and a send up of Emilia Pérez.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with NPR Music's Sidney Madden about rapper Drake's new lawsuit against his record label, Universal Music Group.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Mars Tekosky, who lost the home she and her family had recently renovated in Altadena, California due to wildfire.
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Religious leaders participating in President-elect Trump's inauguration events this year will see a few changes from past years. We look at what's behind the changes.
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"People have lost everything," says FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell. More than 24,000 have already applied for assistance from FEMA, but Criswell says that number is certain to rise.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Grady Hendrix about his latest horror novel, "Witchcraft for Wayward Girls," in which the witches are not the worst evil-doers, the humans are.
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Mandatory evacuations remain in place in some communities in the LA basin while firefighting continues. But in Altadena, an extended family ignored evacuation orders and took heroic measures to save their home.