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Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in that have been continuous for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, three individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive federal workforce decreases overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have filed claims to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial support.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge states on increasing risks

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats against the judiciary had gone up “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would reassess which scientific issues need their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has actually remained in place in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, but proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘required labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with workers are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of thousands of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, together with other law firms, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid specialists and grant receivers by 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Monday, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed the administration’s request to avoid a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.