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 the rapper about making his new album It's Almost Dry, working with Kanye and Pharrell and reflecting on what longevity looks like in hip-hop.
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Ayesha Rascoe talks to journalist Egill Bjarnason about the ecological impacts of outdoor cats and the curfews some Icelandic towns have imposed on them.
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A new podcast from WBHM details ongoing failures of the Alabama prison system years after they were brought to light.
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Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Phylicia Brown of Buffalo, N.Y., about how the community is doing after a mass shooting at a local grocery store on May 14.
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Ayesha Rascoe talks with Amnesty International's Arjun Chaudhuri about the state of emergency in El Salvador which has led to mass arrests of civilians.
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Ayesha Rascoe talks with Flo and Scot Rice. She was wounded in the shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas 4 years ago, and he participated in Gov. Greg Abbott's roundtables on school safety.
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On TikTok, #IStandWithAmberHeard has garnered about 8.2 million views, while #JusticeForJohnnyDepp has earned about 15 billion views. A sociologist offers her views on the reasons why. -
Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Jenny Town, senior fellow at the Stimson Center and director of its 38 North Program, about the recent uptick in North Korea's ballistic missile tests.
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Ayesha Rascoe talks with New York Governor Kathy Hochul about Saturday's mass shooting that killed 10 people and injured three at a grocery store in Buffalo.
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Ayesha Rascoe talks with Kinley Salmon, Africa correspondent for The Economist, about the widespread fuel shortages affecting the continent.
