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 Glory Dolphin Hammes, CEO of IQAir North America, about the difficulties of tracking wildfire smoke.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Bloomberg AI infrastructure reporter Dina Bass about concerns over circular financing in the AI sector.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Ariane Tabatabai of the the Chicago Council on Global Affairs about potential offramps from the war available to the U.S. and Iran.
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Frozen yogurt, or froyo, has had waves of popularity, starting in the 1980s. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to journalist Rachel Kurzius, who says we're in the midst of a "third wave froyo renaissance."
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Shaboozey, whose new album, "The Outlaw Cherie Lee and Other Western Tales," tells a tale of revenge in the Wild West.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe discusses America's declining trust in public health officials with Marianne Udow-Phillips, a lecturer at the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.
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Doctors are seeing more children injured - some badly - from e-bikes and e-scooters. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Dr. Cornelia Griggs and Caitlin Coit of Mass General Brigham for Children Hospital.
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Wildlife researchers facing budget cuts turned to the internet with an account promising "uncensored marmot content" to subscribers. NPR's Ayesha Roscoe talks to Dan Blumstein, creator of OnlyMarms.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Ellen Doherty of Fred Rogers Productions about "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood's" new YouTube channel.
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We look at how the Democratic party is approaching the midterms, and if they are using issues like the war in Iran and affordability, to their advantage.