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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Amazon is now offering discounted subscriptions to primary care. Ayesha Rascoe talks to healthcare writer Bruce Japsen about what ventures like these signal for patients.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks UC-Davis Health professor Gary Novack about the latest FDA product warning concerning eyedrops.
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In some species of frogs, the females play dead to avoid mating with aggressive males. Dr. Carolin Dittrich, behavior ecologist at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, tells us more.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks researcher Kimberly Bertrand about hair relaxers containing formaldehyde and moves by the FDA to ban them.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to author Virginia Sole-Smith about the future of the body positivity movement in the wake of weight loss drugs like Ozempic.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Howard University professor Gloria Washington about a new project that will make it easier for Black people to be understood by automatic speech recognition technology.
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Parents often lament having to get a new pair of winter boots for their kids every year as they grow out of their old ones. A group of Northwestern University students came up with a fix for that.
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Wildfire smoke has plagued much of the country this summer causing short-term impacts like increasing asthma. But researchers learning that wildfire smoke can have far-lasting implications.
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New data suggest a connection between antibiotic resistance and particulate pollution the air we breathe.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Mariana Socal of Johns Hopkins about the continuing shortage of ADHD medications.