Franco Ordo帽ez
Franco Ordo帽ez is a White House Correspondent for NPR's Washington Desk. Before he came to NPR in 2019, Ordo帽ez 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.
Ordo帽ez 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 Biden and other G-7 leaders gathered in Bali for an emergency meeting to discuss the explosions in Poland. "We're going to find out exactly what happened," he said. -
Explosions rang out across Kyiv early Monday, a week after nationwide strikes rocked the city for the first time since June. -
President Biden is touting new semiconductor investments in New York today. Back at the White House, a new team is meeting with cabinet members to work out how to spend $52 billion from Congress. -
Biden says a faction of the Republican party tied to former President Donald Trump is "determined to take this country backwards." Republicans say he's being divisive. -
Biden wants Congress to give people a break on the federal gas tax for the summer. But economists say that won't translate into big savings at the pump 鈥� and could hurt efforts to curb inflation. -
The Summit of the Americas was supposed to be a chance for the United States to make progress with its neighbors on migration and other big issues. But several key players won't be at the table. -
Western allies would respond if Russia uses chemical weapons against Ukraine, President Biden said after an emergency meeting with NATO allies. "It would trigger a response in-kind," he said. -
This is Harris' highest-stakes foreign trip yet. She will meet some 13 heads of state to discuss the threat posed by Russia, and will speak at the Munich Security Conference. -
The White House is concerned migrants will be increasingly used as a geopolitical tool as migration increases because of instability and climate change. -
Speaking about the Taliban's ousting of the U.S.-backed Afghan government, Biden acknowledged, "The truth is this did unfold more quickly than we anticipated."
