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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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Extreme temperatures have caused problems for the beverage service on some Southwest Airlines flights, with hot cans exploding when opened.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with political pundit Charlie Sykes about his take on the state of the presidential race, now between conventions.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Stefano Schiavon, a professor at University of California, Berkeley, on the benefits of using fans in conjunction with air conditioners.
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We look at former president Donald Trump's rally in Michigan - the first one since the assassination attempt on him and the first one with his new running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with director Levan Akin about his new movie, "Crossing." It tells the story of a woman searching for her long-lost niece in Istanbul.
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In a week with lots of political news, we'll bring you some of the voices in the news to help you catch up on what you might have missed.
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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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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Normani about her new debut album, "Dopamine," which was released after a few years of personal challenges.
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Forget "Jaws" or "Ghostbusters," we have suggestions for under-the-radar movies that can help you feel the season without feeling the summer heat.
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with the city of Ottawa's new Nightlife Commissioner, Mathieu Grondin
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NPR's Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with this week's winner Darryl Nester from Bluffton, Ohio and puzzle master Will Shortz.
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We talk about the takeaways from the Republican National Convention as well as what lies ahead for President Biden, as more of his fellow Democrats ask him to step down from the race.