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 Maggie Kang, the director of Kpop Demon Hunters, about the film's massive success and unexpected cultural impact.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to journalist Wladimir van Wilgenburg about the role Kurds may play in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
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We look at how different U.S. media outlets have been covering the U.S.- Israel-Iran war.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Arash Azizi, a lecturer at Yale University, about the role Iran's Revolutionary Guard and security forces might play in the country after the war.
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We look at the Trump administration's objectives in the war with Iran, as well as the ouster of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.
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Three women survived marriages to serial killers and use their experience to catch one. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Elizabeth Arnott about her new novel, "The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives."
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An app that shows as many forecasts as possible hopes to end the element of surprise in the weather. It also gives notifications for rainbows and picturesque sunsets.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Sean Jarrett, pastor of New Jerusalem Baptist Church in Tulsa, Okla., about receiving a grant from the Preserving Black Churches program.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to researcher Elissia Franklin about a new study which found dangerous chemicals in some commonly used hair extensions.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., about Congressional authorization for the U.S. strikes on Iran.