Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees 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 actually promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted 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 massive federal workforce reductions 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’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 monetary assistance.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge states on increasing risks

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

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was one of several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing 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 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 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 strategy, the source said.

Push for long-term 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 halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has been in place in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, however proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 transportation to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of thousands of people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, in addition to other law practice, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration should 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 due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, 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 case before February 13.