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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If you're planning on buying an artificial Christmas tree this year, you may want to make your purchase sooner rather than later. -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks author and illustrator Patrick Horvath about "Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees," his graphic novel about an ursine serial killer.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with The Lemonheads singer Evan Dando about the new album "Love Chant," the group's first release of original material in nearly 20 years.
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The Honeycrisp apple variety is popular around the world but poses problems for producers. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Kait Thornton, a fourth-generation apple farmer in Washington state.
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The new documentary "The Perfect Neighbor" uses police body cam footage to reconstruct what led to the killing of Ajike Owens in 2023. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with director Geeta Gandbhir.
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The documentary "Love+War" follows photojournalist Lynsey Addario as she captures war across the world. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Addario about the balance between her work and life.
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Billboard says Xania Monet is "the first known AI artist to earn enough radio airplay to debut on a Billboard radio chart."
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with musicians Jeff Parker and John McEntire of the post-rock band Tortoise about "Touch," the group's first studio album in almost a decade.
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Generations of one family's women think they can never keep a man in the new novel "Cursed Daughters." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Oyinkan Braithwaite about the power of negative thinking.
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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."
