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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The scope of the damage Hurricane Helena caused is still not totally clear.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell how the agency is helping local communities recover from Hurricane Helene.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Nimrod Novik, an Israeli security expert, about Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
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Immigration, one of the biggest issues of the presidential election, will likely be highlighted in the vice presidential debate on Tuesday.
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In both Ann Arbor and Tuscaloosa this weekend, members of the presidential tickets took politics to college football games.
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Nathan Moore of the Sandia National Laboratories details a possible new method to stop a dangerous asteroid from hitting the earth: a burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion.
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The presidential candidates are hitting as many key states as they can while the vice presidential candidates prepare for a debate Tuesday.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Mohamad Bazzi, a Middle East studies expert at NYU, about the latest developments in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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From abortion to immigration, the presidential tickets had plenty to say this week. We hear from them, in their own words.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Ta-Nehisi Coates about his new collection of three essays, "The Message." It is Coates' return to nonfiction after nearly a decade.