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 has put Steve Witkoff — a friend from New York's real estate world — in charge of delicate talks on the war in Ukraine, Iran's nuclear ambitions and the conflict in Gaza. -
The president of El Salvador said during a meeting with President Trump at the White House on Monday that he's not returning a Maryland man wrongfully deported to his country back to the U.S.
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El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele and several top Trump administration officials dismissed questions about the fate of a Maryland man wrongfully deported to El Salvador. -
The president announced he would raise tariffs on China to 125% "effective immediately" but said he was pausing big hikes on other U.S. trading partners to allow time for trade negotiations. -
President Trump is boasting about the wheeling and dealing he's doing to cut deals on steep new tariffs. But for weeks, his aides have insisted that tariffs were not a bargaining chip. -
President Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as global concern about Trump's tariffs intensifies.
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Last week, the White House said the National Security Council, the White House counsel office and President Trump adviser Elon Musk were all looking into the mishap. But now, that probe has wrapped -
Vice President Vance toured a U.S. military base in Greenland on Friday and blasted Denmark for not investing enough in the territory. -
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.
