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 to author and visiting fellow at Boston University, Arash Azizi about how Iran might respond to a direct attack from Israel.
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It's been almost a year since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7th. We look at how that conflict has grown.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe previews the upcoming Supreme Court term with reporter Amy Howe of SCOTUSblog.
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We look at how the possibility of the U.S. getting drawn into a wider conflict in the Middle East could affect the presidential race, as well as how the candidates are doing in swing states.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with an Israeli displaced in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks. Guy Becker discusses how life in Israel has changed over the last year.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Jennifer Waxman, archivist at Tulane University, about the steps people can take to preserve their personal collections from natural disasters.
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Hear politicians in their own words speaking about Hurricane Helene recovery and the peaceful transfer of power.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with musician Thurston Moore about his new album, "Flow Critical Lucidity."
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Jerusalem Demsas of The Atlantic about where the two major presidential candidates stand on one of the most important issues facing Americans: housing costs.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Trevor Noah about his new book, "Into the Uncut Grass," and about finding common ground with people with different experiences.