Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, three people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal labor force reductions supervised 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 brought together by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have 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 assistance.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge states on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives must do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers versus the judiciary had increased “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would review which clinical issues need their input. It was among a number of concerns 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 informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told 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 function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Push for permanent US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in . He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of countless people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.