Ayesha Rascoe
Ayesha Rascoe is a White House reporter for NPR. In her current role, she covers breaking news and policy developments from the White House. Rascoe also travels and reports on many of President Trump's foreign trips, including his 2019 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, and his 2018 summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. 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 President Barack 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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President Trump granted clemency to five people on Wednesday, commuting their lengthy sentences. The five cases had been highlighted by clemency activists.
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President Trump was back out in America this week, holding crowded rallies in several swing states while his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, held socially distanced speeches to supporters.
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NewsThe president's doctor said Monday night that Trump had tested negative for the coronavirus on consecutive days and that he was not infectious to others. The rally starts a new sprint in the campaign. -
NPR looks back at a chaotic week at the White House as it grapples with a coronavirus outbreak that has affected key staff members and sent others to work from home.
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NewsThe vice presidential debate will be the first time Pence answers questions about how he and Trump failed to stop the spread of the virus to the White House itself.
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Vice President Mike Pence takes the stage for a debate with Kamala Harris in Salt Lake City Wednesday night. The debate comes amid President Trump's treatment for COVID-19. Pence has tested negative.
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NewsFive days after President Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, and with the commander in chief hospitalized, the White House is struggling to show it has the situation under control.
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We check on the condition of President Trump just weeks before an election many see as a referendum on his handling of the pandemic.
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Now that President Trump has tested positive for the coronavirus, NPR checks in with what that means for life and work at the White House and what is known about living with COVID-19.
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Local NewsPresident Trump is 74, an age that makes him more vulnerable to the virus. The first lady, who's 50, also tested positive.
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President Trump said he is planning to announce at the end of this week his nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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In times of crisis, leadership experts recommend a blunt approach. But in the early days of the pandemic, President Trump chose the opposite tactic, downplaying the threat reportedly to reduce panic.
