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 visited Capitol Hill Wednesday and faced off with Senate Republicans upset about his handling of the Iran War, after scrapping plans to sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill.
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President Trump visits Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley Tuesday, hoping to tout the economy in the wake of an initial agreement with Iran.
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Vice President Vance is on his way back to the U.S. after he said negotiators made progress toward a lasting peace deal.
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President Trump gave a wide-ranging press conference Wednesday at the end of the G7 summit where he tackled questions about his tentative agreement with Iran.
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President Trump's G7 summit meetings with world leaders conclude in a news conference, with questions likely to address an uncertain agreement to end war with Iran and U.S. support for Ukraine.
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President Trump said the next stage of negotiations with Iran should be easier than the first as he continues to tout the recent agreement between the two countries at the G7 summit in France.
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French president Emmanuel Macron met with Trump and congratulated him for signing the new Iran agreement.
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President Trump says a deal has been reached to end the war with Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. NPR's Franco Ordoñez discusses what we know and what comes next.
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The gathering was originally expected to be a meeting focused on a variety of separate economic and security issues. -
Trump said Israel's attack on Beirut Sunday "should not have happened," but maintained that the U.S. was still "very close to a Deal" to end the war with Iran.
