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 asks University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash what happens if the president flouts court orders. Prakash clerked for Assoc. Justice Clarence Thomas.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Cierra Hinton about the online phenomenon called Hillmantok, a curated collection of academic lessons reminiscent of classes at an HBCU.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Alison Green, author of the "Ask a Manager" blog, what questions she's been getting from federal workers amid all the uncertainty caused by the Trump administration.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck about the constitutional issues raised by the Trump administration's efforts to pause federal loans and grants last week.
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Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the TV show Silo, Rilo Kiley's reunion tour, and a send up of Emilia Pérez. -
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Mars Tekosky, who lost the home she and her family had recently renovated in Altadena, California due to wildfire.
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"People have lost everything," says FEMA administrator Deanne Criswell. More than 24,000 have already applied for assistance from FEMA, but Criswell says that number is certain to rise. -
Mandatory evacuations remain in place in some communities in the LA basin while firefighting continues. But in Altadena, an extended family ignored evacuation orders and took heroic measures to save their home.
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, residents Fay and Bob Wenrich divorced in 1975. Now, at ages 89 and 94, and after nearly half a century apart, they've re-married.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Forbes healthcare reporter Bruce Japsen about the legislative push to curb the power of pharmacy-benefit managers, who negotiate prices insurers pay for drugs.
