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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We remember Cuban-born American singer Angela Alvarez, who 2 years ago became the oldest person to win Best New Artist at the Latin Grammy awards. She died this week at the age of 97.
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In a lightning campaign, Syrian rebels seize the capital and end half a century of brutal Assad family rule.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Qutaiba Idlbi of the Atlantic Council about the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, considered one of the fiercest dictatorships in the world.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with health policy researcher Robin Rudowitz about the prospect of cuts to Medicaid and what impact that would have.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to U.S. college student Juliette Sartori about how her an idea for a new club, Dinner with a Stranger, became a huge hit at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Abigail Hunter of the nonpartisan organization SAFE about the Chinese government's recent ban on exports of rare minerals to the U.S.
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President-elect Donald Trump travels to Paris for the opening of Notre Dame and for some soft diplomacy, meanwhile the future of his pick for secretary of defense remains in question.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks "American Idol" alum Clay Aiken about his latest holiday album, "Christmas Bells Are Ringing."
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'Tis the season for a murder mystery! NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Benjamin Stevenson about "Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret," a book he structured like a grim Advent calendar.
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Nick Frost on his newest horror comedy and what makes the slasher funny.
