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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In "Great Black Hope," a young, gay, Black man is reeling even before his socialite roommate is found dead. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Rob Franklin about race, class, addiction, and his debut novel.
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Parts of the U.S. air traffic control system still rely on floppy disks and computers running Windows 95. The Trump administration is pushing for an overhaul, but it won't be easy or cheap.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Claudia Sahm, Chief Economist for New Century Advisors, what the latest job figures tell us about the state of the economy.
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President Trump's immigration actions, like the travel ban, have had large effects in South Florida where many Venezuelan, Haitian, and Cuban people live.
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The Trump administration is ramping up immigration action across the country while the tax and spending bill containing immigration provisions is losing momentum in the Senate.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks journalist Jeff Gerstmann what's next for gaming now that the Nintendo Switch 2 is finally in stores.
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A black-and-white photo of a Las Vegas dancer posing in a mushroom-cloud swimsuit became iconic of America's "atomic age," but for decades her identity was unknown. The mystery has finally been solved.
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The latest flurry of activity between Israel and Hamas over a possible ceasefire is still far from a done deal. Meanwhile, not enough aid is getting in to Gaza as a murky plan by U.S. contractors continues its chaotic rollout.
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France's upcoming smoking ban will be their largest clamp down on tobacco use, as the nation hopes to achieve a smoke-free generation by 2032.
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President Trump pardoned a corrupt, former Virginia sheriff last week, saying he was a victim of the Biden administration. But as NPR's Frank Langfitt reports, many of the sheriff's constituents oppose the pardon.
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This week in the trial of Sean Combs, a former employee testified that he held her against her will, threatened her and eventually blacklisted her so she could not get another job in the music industry. The details were shocking, but reminded Rodney Carmichael of the image that Combs cultivated in the media, reality shows and movies during the early 2000s -- an uncompromising, unreasonable boss whose employees had to bend to his whims.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks trade and commerce attorney Jonathan Todd what he expects to hear at a 3-day gathering of supply chain professionals in Orlando, Fla. starting today.