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.
-
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Eduardo Gamarra, professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University, about the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America.
-
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. An NPR investigation details how the Trump administration is trying to erase government information on the attack.
-
TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. operations to a group of investors led by Larry Ellison, the billionaire ally of Trump whose family media and entertainment empire just got bigger.
-
Suffragists didn't just march. They baked, held bake sales and sold cookbooks to raise money for the cause of equality. -
Residents of the growing town of Eagle, Idaho, are encountering a nuisance usually associated with big cities: swarms of rats. In Eagle that includes the acrobatic roof rat.
-
The UN's top humanitarian and emergency relief official has told NPR that the lack of attention from world leaders to the war in Sudan is the "billion dollar question". -
We take a look at President Trump's peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, Marjorie Taylor Greene's decision to step down from Congress, and a surprisingly cordial visit to the White House.
-
If you're planning on buying an artificial Christmas tree this year, you may want to make your purchase sooner rather than later. -
![Earlybirds Club, a dance party for "ladies with [stuff] to do in the morning" at Union Stage in Washington, D.C. Founded by high school friends Laura Baginski and Susie Lee, the party gives women the opportunity to gather and dance in a safe space.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/bfdce53/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1200x669+0+84/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F11%2F05%2Fb75372c44e09bba7218d380d3399%2Fearlybirds1.jpg)
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe heads to the club — the Earlybirds Club — and dances until the break of 8 p.m. -
We look at the latest in the case against Tyler Robinson, the young man authorities believe is responsible for the assassination of conservative youth leader Charlie Kirk last week in Utah.
![Earlybirds Club, a dance party for "ladies with [stuff] to do in the morning" at Union Stage in Washington, D.C. Founded by high school friends Laura Baginski and Susie Lee, the party gives women the opportunity to gather and dance in a safe space.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f785859/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1200x669+0+84/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F11%2F05%2Fb75372c44e09bba7218d380d3399%2Fearlybirds1.jpg)