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 reporter Rebecca Collard about the investigation into Friday's attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Reuters reporter Thomas Escritt about the investigation into the attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
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Ayesha Rascoe talks to Mazen Gharibah of the London School of Economics about internal opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, which started long before his ouster this month.
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, residents Fay and Bob Wenrich divorced in 1975. Now, at ages 89 and 94, and after nearly half a century apart, they've re-married.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Forbes healthcare reporter Bruce Japsen about the legislative push to curb the power of pharmacy-benefit managers, who negotiate prices insurers pay for drugs.
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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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Nick Frost on his newest horror comedy and what makes the slasher funny. -
President-elect Donald Trump announced three medical doctors as his picks to lead the FDA, CDC and to serve as surgeon general. NPR's Pien Huang discusses his picks.
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Attacks between Ukraine and Russia are escalating, with Russia using what it describes as new missile technology.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks retired U.S. naval officer Peter Rybski why the Coast Guard has fallen behind on producing icebreakers and what that means for U.S. influence in the Arctic.
