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 Harvard American Studies Prof. Lizabeth Cohen about how mass consumption and cheap goods became tied to the American dream.
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Houses that survived the LA fires are contaminated with toxic chemicals but some insurers say they won't cover it. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to David Jones, former California Insurance Commissioner.
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President Trump meets El Salvador's president Monday at the White House to discuss the use of a Salvadoran supermax prison for migrants deported from the U.S.
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The women's division 1 basketball champion will be crowned tonight in Tampa, Fla. The final is sure to be a great one. The men's final is Monday night in San Antonio as two #1 seeds tangle for the title.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Patrick Soong, who helps companies find places to make their products, about the effects of U.S. tariffs on industry in Southeast Asia.
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It was a chaotic week for the nation's health agencies, as layoff notices rolled in along with an order for deep cuts to contract spending. NPR's health reporters tell us what they've learned.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of Michigan law professor Leah Litman about Amy Coney Barrett's term on the U.S. Supreme Court, where she has occasionally been a swing vote.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dalia Dassa Kaye of UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations about President Trump's upcoming trip to Saudi Arabia.
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AI will have more of an impact on certain demographic groups than others. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Jonathan Hersh, professor at Chapman University, about who will be most affected and why.
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President Trump's tariff regime puts him at odds with Congressional Republicans seeking to cut taxes.