Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amidst 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 current hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous 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 city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic lawyers basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have 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 says on increasing dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats against the judiciary had increased “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would review which clinical issues require their input. It was one of numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has been in location in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, but proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces 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 magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. 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 innocent.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of thousands of individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, together with other law practice, strategy 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 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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.