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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At Vancouver's Museum of Personal Failure, artifacts celebrate a range of life's shortcomings. Some contributors say taking part in the project has been cathartic.
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From Lady Gaga to Kendrick Lamar, we hear about the nominees for this year's Grammy awards.
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A recent study that shows how cows can use tools recalls the controversial 1982 cartoon from "The Far Side" comic strip called "Cow Tools."
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The Sundance Film Festival is underway in Park City, Utah and there's buzz on a number of films.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Cheryl W. Thompson about her book, "Forgotten Souls: The Search for the Lost Tuskegee Airmen," which chronicles Black World War II pilots who were lost in combat.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to food blogger Adam Gallagher about the dangers of depending on AI for recipe generation.
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The Australian folk band The Paper Kites has a new song called "When The Lavender Blooms." It offers some advice about how to appreciate the present moment.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to filmmaker Violet Feng about The Dating Game, her new documentary about the challenges single men in China face as they attempt to find a romantic partner.
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Two Indian-American girls plot to kill their abusive uncle in 'How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder.' NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to author Nina McConigley about her debut novel.
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We look at how "Sean Combs: The Reckoning," an explosive Netflix docuseries, is affecting the public's opinion of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, convicted last year after a highly publicized trial.