Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates 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 vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires today, three individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of damaging U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce reductions managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, 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 support.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys 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 activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had increased “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reassess which scientific problems need their input. It was among numerous problems 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 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel 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 agencies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Push for permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to make the many of the longer nights – has actually remained in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law firms, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 demand to prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling 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 wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.