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 fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months in the middle of assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force decreases 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 chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually 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 backing.

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

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

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would reassess which clinical concerns require their input. It was among numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source acquainted 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 excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘required labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of countless people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law firms, 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 should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging 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 billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.