Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amid Israel’s on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal workforce decreases supervised 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary assistance.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys need to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation 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 threats against the judiciary had actually gone up “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function 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 advisers but stated he would reevaluate which clinical issues require their input. It was among several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

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

Push for permanent US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, but supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring workers 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 take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government employees who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of countless people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, along with other law practice, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help 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 demand to avoid a deadline 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 recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.