Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, 3 people familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful U.S. . The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers 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 town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have actually submitted 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 backing.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing threats

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers against the judiciary had gone up “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate look

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

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel 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 companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Push for irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 transportation to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed workers are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of countless people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, in addition to other law office, 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 need to make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help contractors and grant recipients 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 demand 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 lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.