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 New York City Council Member Chi Ossé about his FARE act, which shifts the responsibility for broker fees from the tenant to the landlord in many cases.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center's Janet Holtzblatt about funding for the Internal Revenue Service.
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What does it take to be the sexiest collard farmer in North Carolina? Lee Berry, the reigning champ and current competitor in the contest's 2nd year, explains.
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Kids in the kitchen: chaos or bliss? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and her children join Mark Bittman to try out some kid-friendly recipes from his new book "How To Cook Everything Kids." -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Punchbowl News reporter Brendan Pedersen about the cryptocurrency industry's heavy spending on the 2024 campaign and what it could mean for crypto regulation.
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Former President Donald Trump is now President-elect, again. We hear his words after the election, and some of Vice President Kamala Harris' concession speech.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Heather Conley of the German Marshall Fund of the United States what Donald Trump's second term could mean for NATO and the war in Ukraine.
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How is the election playing out across the country's workplaces? So far it has included lots of tense conversations around the water cooler and has resulted in a productivity dip.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Derek Tisler, an expert on election administration and security at the Brennan Center for Justice, when to expect results after the polls close on Tuesday.
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As many as 100 million people were affected by a healthcare hack earlier this year. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to KFF Health News reporter Darius Tahir about what that means for consumers affected.
