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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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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President Biden is in Bali, Indonesia, for the G-20, where for the first time in his presidency, he's expected to meet face-to-face with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Fat Joe about his new memoir, "The Book of José," which traces the rapper's rise from the rough and tumble streets of the Bronx to his success in the music world.
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Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is heading to the COP27 summit this week, to reassure the world that Amazon rainforest is in safe hands.
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Following the death of hip-hop artist Takeoff, a member of the group Migos, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with host of Rap Radar, Elliott Wilson about his legacy and what his death means for the genre.
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The DOJ's arrests last week of those involved in a catalytic converter theft ring is emblematic of a dramatic rise in the auto part crime nationwide. How car owners can protect themselves.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks Chardine Taylor-Stone and Stephanie Phillips of punk rock band Big Joanie about their album, "Back Home," and about the role of joy and resistance in punk music.