NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with April Longley Alley of the Washington Institute about the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The Iran-aligned group is restricting ship traffic through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
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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.