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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Saturday's military parade in Washington D.C. and the national "No Kings" protests created a split-screen moment for a divided nation.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks the International Crisis Group's Ali Vaez about the current state of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.
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President Trump will attend the Group of Seven political and economic summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.
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A white Illinois teen attaches himself to a regiment of Black Union soldiers in the satirical Civil War novel "How to Dodge a Cannonball." NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with author Dennard Dayle about it.
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More details on this weekend's shootings in Minnesota that officials have called politically motivated.
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Authorities are looking for 57-year-old Vance Boelter, who is suspected of shooting two Minnesota state lawmakers.
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In cities around the country, people gathered for "No Kings" protests in opposition to President Trump's policies.
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Many Iranians are surprisingly muted about Israel's attacks on their country because they do not support Iran's leadership.
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President Trump's mass deportation efforts will skip farms, hotels, and restaurants for the time being.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all the people serving on a national vaccine advisory board. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Edwin Asturias, one of the doctors who was sacked.
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Both researchers and native animals are pushing back against the invasive Burmese Python in the Florida Everglades.
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A slew of Supreme Court decisions this summer will have far-reaching consequences. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Leah Litman, law professor at the University of Michigan, about what to expect.