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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 speaks with Andrea Freeman, author of "Ruin Their Crops to the Ground," about food policy in the U.S. from the Revolutionary War to the present.
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Florida is the U.S. state most vulnerable to climate change. NPR's Ayesha Roscoe speaks with Republican voters about how that factors into their voting plans in November.
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A wandering kinkajou, a small mammal that lives in the rainforests of Mexico and Central and South America, was spotted outside of Yakima, Washington.
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A science reporter mistakes a stranger for her husband and decides to take a deep dive into her own brain. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speak with Sadie Dingfelder about her new book, "Do I Know You?"
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks UCLA Institute for Technology Law and Policy Executive Director Michael Karanicolas who could be liable if AI gives out advice that proves harmful.
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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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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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A new CDC report finds that in 2022, over 7 million children and adolescents in the U.S. had gotten an ADHD diagnosis at some point in their lives. That’s 1 out of every 9 kids. And it's a million more kids than in 2016.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Kalyanam Shivkumar, a cardiologist at UCLA, about his push to create a new anatomical atlas after discovering the one used by doctors for decades was made by the Nazis.
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R.O. Kwon's latest novel "Exhibit" centers on a photographer, an injured ballerina, and their instantaneous — and intense — relationship. She speaks to NPR's Ayesha Rascoe about desire and taboos.