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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Two comets and a meteor shower may be visible to stargazers this month.
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Federal workers, many already furloughed, may now face unemployment as the White House uses them as leverage in negotiations to end the federal government shutdown.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Reverend Quincy Worthington, from Highland Park Presbyterian Church, about what he's seeing on the ground during ongoing ICE protests in Chicago.
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Scientists discovered a 675-year-old shoe perfectly preserved in a vulture's nest in Spain. Researchers say a lot can be learned about human history and ecology from studying bearded vulture nests.
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Last year's Supreme Court decision giving Donald Trump and future presidents broad immunity from prosecution may be fueling Trump's maximalist approach to executive power this year.
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Federal immigration agents shot a woman in Chicago this weekend after they say they were boxed in by several cars and had their vehicles rammed. Chicago residents are tense.
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The White House is renewing threats to send military force to Chicago. Meanwhile there seems to be no progress in ending the federal government's shutdown.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Boston Globe Meteorologist Ken Mahan about the drought hitting the state of Massachusetts.
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President Trump says he'll send troops to Portland, Oregon - the latest deployment to an American city. Officials there say it's unnecessary.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Senator Andy Kim, a New Jersey Democrat, about his party's strategy heading into a possible government shutdown.