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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New research from the University of Georgia shows that the Southern accent is fading. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks linguistics professor Margaret Renwick about the trend.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Rachel Harrison about her new horror novel, "Black Sheep," which asks what must be sacrificed in order to go home again.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with economist Betsey Stevenson about Bidenomics and the latest economic data.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks musician Corinne Bailey Rae about her new album, "Black Rainbows," which is a departure from her earlier work.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was impeached by the state House in May, but yesterday the state Senate voted to acquit.
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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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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks David Ubben of "The Athletic" about Deion Sanders and his tenure as head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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The Danish Chamber Orchestra has brought Leopold Mozart's "Hunting Symphony" to life with some canine performers joining the fun.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to pop culture mavens Sylvia Obell and Scottie Beam about their new podcast, "The Scottie & Sylvia Show."
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Impeachment has been driving the political agenda everywhere from Austin to Washington, D.C.