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 asks Jeremiah Fraites of The Lumineers about his new collection of piano music, his second, called "Piano Piano 2."
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Thompson-Reuters insurance correspondent Carolyn Cohn about how a record-breaking payout for the Key Bridge disaster may affect the insurance industry.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Maryland Gov. Wes Moore about the cleanup and reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Rae Wynn-Grant about her journey to becoming an ecologist. Grant writes about it in her memoir, "Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World."
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with NetChoice's Carl Szabo, a critic of Florida's new social media restrictions for kids, about age verification and fears of data collection.
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Clearing the wreckage of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge after it was destroyed by a container ship is an urgent priority. How long until maritime traffic can resume is far from clear.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with epidemiologist João Matias of the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction about the organization's latest wastewater and drug detection analysis.
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How troubled is Boeing? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to aviation expert William McGee about the challenges facing the aerospace giant.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Palestinian American Yasmeen Mjalli, owner of the online boutique Nol Collective, about trying to evacuate her colleagues and their families from Gaza.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Simone St. James about her new book, "Murder Road," and about weaving the supernatural into her fiction.