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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Musician Jon Lampley has been a fixture in the band on Stephen Colbert's talk show. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to the trumpet player about his debut album, "Night Service: Live at LunÀtico."
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Hockey history has been made. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Kendall Coyne Schofield, captain of PWHL Minnesota — that's the Professional Women's Hockey League — the first winners of the Walter Cup.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Louis Virelli III, professor at College of Law at Stetson University in Florida, about what sorts of conflicts of interests prompt Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves from cases.
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Girls in the U.S. are getting their first period earlier than in decades past. Researchers say there are multiple factors causing early puberty, including obesity and environmental pollutants.
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Mexico goes to the polls today in an election marred by violence and the killing of over 30 of the political candidates who were running.
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Napster, a free, online music-sharing platform was created 25 years ago. It didn't last long, but we look at how it made lasting changes to the way we consume music.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with director Pablo Berger about his new animated film, "Robot Dreams," about a lonely dog in New York City who buys a robot to keep him company.
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Ouch! She did it again! North Carolinian Abby Lampe won the women's race at the Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake in Gloucester, England, her second title. She talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about her winning technique.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Kemba Smith Pradia, who was imprisoned under mandatory minimum sentencing laws, as well as Kelley Kali, who directed a film, "Kemba," based on Pradia's life.
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We look at what the Democrat and Republican parties each make of former president Donald Trump's felony convictions as well as where the voters stand.