Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing 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 expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. 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 attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal workforce decreases overseen 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 neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former 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 obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial assistance.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers versus the judiciary had increased “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in guarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however stated he would reevaluate which clinical problems require their input. It was among several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs 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 last word on staffing and policy at their agencies, 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 was in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Push for irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

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

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members 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 transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, along with other law practice, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid contractors 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.