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 scope of the damage Hurricane Helena caused is still not totally clear.
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With North Carolina now a toss-up this presidential election, both parties are making appeals to Black men. An older farmer and a younger restaurant owner share what's driving their votes. -
Fighting in and around Sudan's capital is fierce and devastating to the people who either cannot flee or feel compelled to stay.
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Israel struck targets in southern Lebanon in what they say was a pre-emptive strike. Hezbollah returned fire. The increase in cross-border exchanges happens just as ceasefire talks resume.
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Democratic enthusiasm is high out of the DNC, but how does it really compare to 2008? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. endorses the Trump campaign as Trump's running mate seems to struggle.
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A proposed merger of two grocery giants, Albertsons and Kroger, goes to court tomorrow in a case that could have big implications for consumers.
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Two political conventions, two contrasting displays of masculinity: Republicans with defiant, dominating approaches to manhood and Democrats highlighting roles as fathers and husbands.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to nuclear expert James Acton from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the dangers of what is being called the new nuclear age.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with journalist Widlore Merancourt about the current situation in Haiti, two months after Kenyan police arrived in an effort to help the country's police control violent gangs.
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Last week's Democratic National Convention showcased a newly energized party. We hear some of the voices from those four days in Chicago.
