Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force decreases managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic lawyers basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually filed suits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial support.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge states on rising threats

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers must do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats against the judiciary had actually gone up “greatly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would review which scientific issues need their input. It was among a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Promote irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has been in place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of countless people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law office, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.