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Ayesha Rascoe

At SignedNews, Ayesha Rascoe covers U.S. news and urban life.

Ayesha Rascoe hosts Weekend Edition Sunday and weekend episodes of Up First at NPR. She joined NPR in 2018 after a decade at Reuters, where her assignments included energy and White House coverage. Her reporting career has spanned three presidential administrations. Rascoe graduated from Howard University and edited HBCU Made, a collection of essays about the influence of historically Black colleges and universities.

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Runner, 24, dies after collapsing near end of NYC Marathon

Rachel Apa's final texts to her father traced pain building over the last miles of…

Dumpster divers say bins yield brand-name clothes and savings

From Ralph Lauren jackets to years of free shampoo, bin salvagers in London, Essex and…

Learjet may have broken apart before Florida road crash

Weather is a major focus after a jet carrying nine plunged onto a busy Palm…

Learjet crash on Palm Beach County road kills all 9 aboard

A Texas-to-Bahamas Learjet fell thousands of feet in about a minute before hitting a Florida…