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 talks with director Dawn Porter. Her new documentary, "Luther: Never Too Much," tracks the life and music of the singing great Luther Vandross.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with reporter Daniel Politi about the turnaround for Argentina's once-ailing economy. Some signs indicate the economic progress is happening on the backs of poor people.
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Ukrainian soldiers have been saying for weeks that North Korean troops have been fighting alongside Russians. But it looks like those troops might be pulling back now.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck about the constitutional issues raised by the Trump administration's efforts to pause federal loans and grants last week.
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The 67th annual Grammy Awards take place Sunday evening, featuring performances by a new generation of pop stars, and a somber tone in light of the recent Los Angeles wildfires.
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We're over a month into winter, and many people are trying to chase the winter blahs away. We have some suggestions from our 2-person NPR Cozy Culture Crew.
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Virginia Feito gets inside the twisted, bloodthirsty, and often comical head of a killer-posing-as-a-governess in the new book "Victorian Psycho."
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President Trump followed through on his threat to impose steep new tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China. But he pushed back the effective date until Tuesday.
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We look at a chaotic week in politics, with the Trump administration attempting a federal funding freeze and a buyout for two million federal workers.
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The Trump administration wants to cut the federal workforce. For many Black Americans these jobs helped them enter the middle class. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Georgetown University's Dorothy Brown about race and wealth.