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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Congress passed and President Biden has signed spending measures necessary to operate the government. It is a basic function but one that has become the object of Republican brinksmanship.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with interior designer and social media content creator Imani Keal about DIY, renter-friendly apartment renovations.
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With less than a month to go before the tax-filing deadline and as it experiments with a new way for people to file electronic returns, the IRS says this year's tax season is proceeding smoothly.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with David Cohen, politics professor at the University of Akron, about one of the tightest races in the country: the Ohio Senate seat held by Sherrod Brown since 2007.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, about his organization's call for Black student athletes to avoid public colleges and universities in Florida.
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Mike Pence says he will not endorse Donald Trump. Kamala Harris is being deployed by the Biden campaign to appeal to younger voters.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck about how Presidents Biden and Trump have used executive orders while in office.
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With the presidential nominees set and the State of the Union delivered, the marathon to Election Day is underway.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., about his bill to combat "shrinkflation" and about the presidential campaign.
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Scientists have long debated whether Greek scientist Archimedes could have destroyed enemy ships by redirecting sunlight. Brenden Sener, 13, tested it for a school science fair project.