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 views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, 3 with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive 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 combined by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge says on rising risks

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four 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 said hazards against the judiciary had actually gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors however said he would review which clinical issues need their input. It was one of a number of 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 two hours.

Trump tells 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 firms, 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 said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states 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 uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has remained in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. 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 innocent.

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

U.S. federal government workers who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of thousands of people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, together with other law office, plan 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 need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid professionals 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 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 recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.