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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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.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with University of Michigan Law Professor Nicholas Bagley about the lawsuits filed by pharmaceutical groups to strike down Medicare's new drug negotiating power.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Dr. Carlos del Rio of the Emory University School of Medicine about updated recommendations for prescribing and insuring drugs that prevent HIV.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with ProPublica reporter Alec MacGillis about the relationship between social media and an increase in gun violence, often resulting in homicides, among young people.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Esra Barlas Yücel, a researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, about Fermilab's most precise measurements of the muon particle's magnetic wobble.
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Scientists at University of California Berkeley have recreated a Pink Floyd song using previously recorded brain waves. In the process, they've learned a lot about how the brain processes music.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Johns Hopkins physician and professor Lisa Cooper about the recent increase in COVID-19 cases in the U.S. as there is a decrease in free testing and affordable treatments.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Morristown Medical Center sports cardiologist Matthew Martinez about why some young athletes suffer from sudden cardiac-related medical emergencies.