Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, 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, 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 college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force decreases overseen 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 chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial backing.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers must do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats against the judiciary had increased “tremendously.”

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 lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would review which scientific issues need their input. It was among several concerns 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 2 hours.

Trump tells 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 firms, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. time – putting the clocks forward one hour during 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, however proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with new indictment, is accused of ‘required labor’

U.S. prosecutors 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 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 pleaded not guilty.

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

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

Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.