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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The Census Bureau wants to use an annual survey to ask people over the age of 15 about their sexual orientation and gender identity. This data could help enforce civil rights laws.
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Thousands of New Yorkers alter or obscure their license plates to fake-out license plate readers used for toll collection and speeding cameras.
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A year after the death of a young woman after being arrested by Iran's morality police, NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Holly Dagres of The Atlantic Council about calls for change in Iran.
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Ukraine needs to make more advances against Russia before winter weather makes conditions more difficult.
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The Cuban President called on Global South leaders to "change the rules of the game" at the end of the G77+China summit in Havana. -
We take a look inside Nicaragua — a country where repression is the norm, making it one of the hardest countries to report from. Content advisory: The piece includes the sounds of fireworks.
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We look at the latest conditions in Morocco, where a major earthquake near the city of Marrakech has resulted in at least 2,000 deaths.
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Authorities are investigating a death at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert after tens of thousands of people are stuck in camps because of rain.
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A gunman in Jacksonville, Florida killed three black people before taking his own life in a murder spree police say was racially motivated.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Sudan scholar Alex DeWaal about the current political crisis and fighting in Sudan.
