Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system 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 actually pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, three people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal labor force reductions supervised 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 brought together by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed claims to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge states on increasing hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives should do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion 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 hazards against the judiciary had actually gone up “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reevaluate which scientific concerns require their input. It was among several problems 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 2 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 last word 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 was in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daylight 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 actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has actually been in location in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, but supporters have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of countless people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, together with other law practice, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers 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 help contractors 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 claim by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.