
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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Trump said he and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu talked Tuesday about relocating Palestinians and leveling Gaza, which he suggested could be the "Riviera of the Middle East" under U.S. ownership.
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As President Trump seeks to remake the federal government and push the limits of executive power, nearly all of the programs funded by USAID have been halted.
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What mattered, what didn't and what changed in the second week of the Trump administration.
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Two weeks into office, President Trump is enacting policies outlined in the conservative policy agenda Project 2025, from which he had distanced himself on the campaign trail.
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President Trump is threatening sanctions and tariffs on Russia if Putin doesn't reach an agreement to end the war in Ukraine. Some are surprised, considering Trump's affinity for the Russian leader.
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Here's what to expect from President Trump's first full day in office, as well as a recap of the executive actions he took on Monday.
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President Trump didn't wait long to start rolling out executive actions on his first day in office. He's expected to act on issues covering immigration, the federal workforce and the economy.
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The president-elect made a similar pledge on social media in early December. His latest comments came during a wide-ranging news conference from Mar-a-Lago.
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President Biden initially wanted to turn his foreign policy to China but instead was drawn into Ukraine and the Middle East.
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President-elect Donald Trump held a free-wheeling press conference at his Palm Beach, Fla., home. He sent mixed messages on vaccines, defended his cabinet picks and doubled down on tariff threats.