Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amid 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 slew of recent hires today, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal workforce reductions supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have actually submitted suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial backing.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing threats

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated risks versus the judiciary had increased “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would review which clinical concerns need their input. It was among a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge 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 agencies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote 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 stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has actually been in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however supporters 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 unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers 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 responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had 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 guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 request to avoid a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.