Franco Ordoñez
Franco Ordoñez is a White House Correspondent for NPR's Washington Desk. Before he came to NPR in 2019, Ordoñez covered the White House for McClatchy. He has also written about diplomatic affairs, foreign policy and immigration, and has been a correspondent in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and Haiti.
Ordoñez has received several state and national awards for his work, including the Casey Medal, the Gerald Loeb Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism. He is a two-time reporting fellow with the International Center for Journalists, and is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and the University of Georgia.
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President Trump is banking on the public caring more about the politically popular things he is trying to do than how he is going about doing them in his fights with the judicial branch. -
Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, said he was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders about imminent military strikes on Yemen. -
The Trump administration flew planes with Venezuelan detainees to a prison in El Salvador, despite a court order blocking the flights. A judge is demanding the DOJ explain why it ignored the ruling.
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Ukraine agreed to a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, and President Trump says it's now up to Russia. This comes after a weeks-long pressure campaign from the White House.
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American vice presidents sometimes play the role of attack dog, to let the president remain above the fray. But analysts say Vice President JD Vance doesn't fall neatly into that category.
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In his address to a joint session of Congress, President Trump talked about his work to secure the border, slash the size of the government and his new tariffs, among other things. Hear a full recap.
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During a joint press conference President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron highlighted their friendly relationship, even when they appeared far apart on the war in Ukraine. -
President Trump is diverging from decades of U.S. foreign policy when it comes to Russia.
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President Trump is escalating his personal attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling him a "dictator." It's the latest example in the explosive relationship between the two leaders.
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Many of President Trump's foreign policy moves, including suspending foreign aid and saying the U.S. should take over Gaza, have shaken the globe.
