PETER ORSI

U.S. Desk editor

Orsi is a Seattle-based editor on The Associated Press’ U.S. Desk. Previously he worked for AP as an editor and reporter based in Mexico City and Havana and as an editor on the Religion team.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., departs a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Live updates: Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid requested by Trump
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | July 17, 2025
 
Protesters stand off against California National Guard soldiers at the Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles during a "No Kings" protest on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
Trump administration orders 2,000 National Guard troops to leave LA, some will remain
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | July 15, 2025
 
President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with African leaders in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Brazilian President Lula threatens to suspend economic deals over Trump’s 50% tariffs
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | July 9, 2025
 
FILE - The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Supreme Court allows Trump to proceed with plans to downsize the federal workforce
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | July 8, 2025
 
President Donald Trump waves as he arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Md., after visiting a migrant detention center in Ochopee, Fla., Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Live updates: Trump announces Israel agrees to 60-day Gaza ceasefire. Hamas has yet to accept
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | July 1, 2025
 
FILE - The Capitol is seen in Washington, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
Key Medicaid provision in Trump’s big bill found to violate Senate rules
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 26, 2025
 
Rowers paddle down the Charles River near the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., March 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Judge halts Trump’s effort to block Harvard from hosting international students
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 20, 2025
 
President Donald Trump speaks during the congressional picnic on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, June 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Hundreds of ‘No Kings’ protests and rallies planned for Saturday over Trump’s policies
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 13, 2025
 
President Donald Trump, right, listens to a question from a reporter alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio upon arriving at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, N.J., en route to Camp David, Md., Sunday, June 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
US orders nonessential staff to leave Baghdad Embassy as Iran tensions rise
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 11, 2025
 
This undated photo provided by Murray Osorio PLLC shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia. (Murray Osorio PLLC via AP)
Abrego Garcia returned to US to face charges related to human smuggling
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | June 6, 2025
 
President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S. Steel Mon Valley Works-Irvin Plant, Friday, May 30, 2025, in West Mifflin, Pa. (AP Photo/David Dermer)
Trump says he’ll double steel and aluminum tariffs to 50%
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 30, 2025
 
People pause for photographs, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school's conduct policy. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Live updates: Judge stops government from pulling Harvard from Student and Exchange Visitor Program
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 23, 2025
 
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a news conference, April 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
US immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants to South Sudan, attorneys say
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 20, 2025
 
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in front of the West Wing of the White House, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Highlights: Trump agrees to cut tariffs on UK autos, steel and aluminum in a planned trade deal with Britain
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 8, 2025
 
President Donald Trump meets Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Canadian Prime Minister says Canada is ‘not for sale’ as Trump pushes to make it the 51st state
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 6, 2025
 
US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, left, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hold a meeting with Ukrainian officials, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)
Trump names Rubio as acting national security adviser, taps Waltz as UN ambassador
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | May 1, 2025
 
US and Ukraine sign economic deal
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | April 30, 2025
 
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives on the South Lawn of the White House before President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump participate in the White House Easter Egg Roll Monday, April 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Hegseth had an unsecured internet line in his office for Signal, AP sources say
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | April 24, 2025
 
President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump says trade deals could be done within a month
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | April 17, 2025
 
In this photo provided by El Salvador's presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)
Live updates: Judge finds probable cause to hold Trump administration in contempt for violating deportation order
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | April 16, 2025
 
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, right, stands with supporters during a news conference at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Md., Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Judge questions Trump officials’ refusal to return Abrego Garcia to US
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A federal judge in Maryland will order sworn testimony by officials in President Donald Trump’s administration to determine if they complied with her orders to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison.
 
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Monday, April 7, 2025. (Pool via AP)
Trump contradicts treasury secretary over reason for new tariff limits
Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | April 9, 2025
 
The ferry Walla Walla has run aground in Rich Passage near Bainbridge Island west of Seattle on Saturday, April 15, 2023. There were no immediate reports of injuries or contamination, authorities said. (Mike Reicher/The Seattle Times via AP)
Ferry runs aground near Seattle; no injuries reported
Authorities in Washington state say a passenger ferry carrying hundreds of people has run aground near Bainbridge Island west of Seattle, but there are no reports of injuries or contamination.
 
FILE- The roof is collapsed between the pews and the organ pipes in the First United Methodist church in Mayfield, Ky., on, Dec. 19, 2021, after the deadly tornado ravaged the city on Dec. 10. In a string of post-tornado firsts, church members will be celebrating Easter Sunday at their temporary home, Christ United Methodist Church. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
For churches hit by disasters, Easter brings promise of hope
Easter’s message of renewal will be especially poignant this year for four U.S. congregations rebounding from disasters. A tornado destroyed one church in Kentucky.
 
FILE- The roof is collapsed between the pews and the organ pipes in the First United Methodist church in Mayfield, Ky., on, Dec. 19, 2021, after the deadly tornado ravaged the city on Dec. 10. In a string of post-tornado firsts, church members will be celebrating Easter Sunday at their temporary home, Christ United Methodist Church. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson, File)
For churches hit by disaster, Easter brings promise of hope
Easter’s message of renewal will be especially poignant this year for four U.S. congregations rebounding from disasters. A tornado destroyed one church in Kentucky.
 
Vivian Filipic, 4, holds the hand of her father, Filip Filipic, as she receives a gift-wrapped toy motorcycle from Craig Fierro on Friday, June 19, 2020, a day before her 5th birthday, in Truckee, Calif. Fierro, who owns a motorcycle shop in the city, has brought dozens of toys to local kids during the coronavirus pandemic over the last two months to brighten their birthdays during shelter-at-home and social-distancing directives. (AP Photo/Peter Orsi)
Californian brings toys for birthday kids isolated by virus
TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — When coronavirus lockdowns came to his California mountain town, businessman Craig Fierro realized there would be no children’s birthday parties — no friends playing games, eating cake and singing “Happy Birthday.”
 
Mexico’s AMLO says he’ll end public events when time’s right
Mexico’s president says he will suspend his tours of the countryside and person-to-person interactions with large numbers of supporters when his coronavirus czar tells him it’s time to do so.
 
Mexico: AMLO shakes, hugs, cheek-kisses despite virus advice
Mexico health officials are imploring people to change their lifestyles to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
 
Mexico City subway trains collide, killing 1, injuring 41
Two subway trains have collided in the Mexico City Metro system, killing one person and injuring 41.
 
Mexico president: Anti-femicide protests won’t change policy
Mexico’s president says recent protests against rising killings of women will not change his government’s long-term, ground-up approach to dealing with the problem.
 
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