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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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Lynn Whitfield about road trips and playing the commanding mother in her new movie, "Albany Road."
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With controversial nominations and threats to push their appointments through, Donald Trump is already pushing Constitutional norms.
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Kids in the kitchen: chaos or bliss? NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and her children join Mark Bittman to try out some kid-friendly recipes from his new book "How To Cook Everything Kids." -
Congress returns this week. Republicans are hopeful they will maintain their House majority in the next Congress. In the Senate, Republicans will choose the next majority leader.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with A.B. Stoddard, columnist at The Bulwark, about the election results and if it means there has been a durable political realignment.
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Donald Trump saw continued support from white Christians, especially white evangelicals, but a huge shift in Latino Catholics helped him as well
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to the Boston Globe's Beth Teitell < > about the bay leaf and whether it's necessary or not for your dish.
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Donald Trump's moves after his election victory indicate he may be more efficient and less erratic than he was last time as he stands up his administration.
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In the final days of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump is traveling to the reliably blue states of Virginia and New Mexico after visits to New York and California.
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The end of daylight saving time means an extra hour of sleep, earlier sunrises and, for some, an especially long Saturday night.
