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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Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Dr. Ashraf Fawzy about a study that shows how inaccurate measurements by pulse oximeters lead to delays in COVID treatment for people of color.
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Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dina Temple-Raston, host of the "Click Here" podcast and senior correspondent at The Record, about how threats to digital privacy could affect abortion access.
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On TikTok, #IStandWithAmberHeard has garnered about 8.2 million views, while #JusticeForJohnnyDepp has earned about 15 billion views. A sociologist offers her views on the reasons why. -
Ayesha Rascoe discusses the future of immunity against COVID-19 with Theodora Hatziioannou, a research associate professor at the Rockefeller University.
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Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Politico's Helena Bottemiller Evich about the reasons behind the national shortage of baby formula.
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Ayesha Rascoe speaks to epidemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera about the current COVID-19 surge, and what people should be doing when it comes to testing and taking the anti-viral drug Paxlovid.
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If Roe v. Wade is overturned, it could affect medical care for early pregnancy loss. Ayesha Rascoe talks about this with Dr. Lauren Thaxton, a Texas-based OB-GYN and medical professor.
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Ayesha Rascoe talks with Shannon Brewer of the Jackson Women's Health Organization. The Mississippi clinic is at the center of a Supreme Court case that could result in the end of Roe v. Wade.
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Ayesha Rascoe talks with David Cohen, law professor at Drexel University, about potential conflicts between states should the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Ayesha Rascoe talks with Colin Carlson, co-author of a new study projecting that viruses will jump more frequently among species due to climate change, raising the risk of another pandemic.
