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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Green Day has been critical of American society for decades, and its new album, "Saviors" is no exception. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong talks with NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about it.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Associated Press music journalist Maria Sherman about new trends in global music consumption, including increased appetites among Americans for country and world music.
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"Murder on the Dancefloor," a 2001 hit song in the U.K., is just the latest old track to be introduced to a new generation of listeners after being used at a pivotal moment on screen.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with jazz musician Aaron Diehl about his rendition of "The Zodiac Suite," an album originally composed by Mary Lou Williams in the 1940s.
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Weekend Edition host Ayesha Rascoe spent the day with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz to talk all things puzzle, table tennis, and a new chapter of his life. -
A holiday music challenge between NPR hosts with favorite songs of the season, as well a few that aren't so loved.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with actor and musician Joshua Radnor about his debut album, Eulogy: Volume 1.
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After months of jury selection, the Fulton County case against the influential rapper known as Young Thug has begun in Atlanta. Prosecutors are using his lyrics as evidence in the racketeering case.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to jazz composer Sean Mason about his new album, "The Southern Suite."
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks musician Ren Gill, known simply as "Ren," about his new album, "Sick Boi."
