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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French authorities say they've made arrests in the Louvre Museum jewelry heist.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Leslie B. Jones, former Director of Historical Resources & Programming for the White House Historical Association, about the demolition of the White House East Wing.
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NPR'S Ayesha Rascoe speaks with jazz musician Mark Turner about his latest album, "Reflections on: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man." It's based on the book by James Weldon Johnson.
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Mr. and Mrs.Twit are two of the meanest characters in children's literature. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to writer-director Phil Johnston about his animated adaptation of the classic book "The Twits."
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The "996" schedule is 12-hour shifts, 6 days a week and it's captivated Silicon Valley tech leaders. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with academic Margaret O'Mara about this workplace trend.
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President Trump visits Asia this week to work on trade deals with allies and to try pushing a deal with China.
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New research shows that despite losing limbs, some lizards are able to thrive.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to drag duo Dracmorda and Swanthula Boulet about drag, horror and their reality competition series, "The Boulet Brothers' Dragula."
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NPR's Ayesha Racoe speaks with Yale Law School professor William Eskridge about confusion in the lower courts on many hot-button issues and the lack of direction from the Supreme Court.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to CNN's Abby Phillip about her new book on the rise of Black politician and activist Jesse Jackson. It's called "A Dream Deferred."