Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force decreases overseen 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 brought together by Democratic attorneys general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’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 remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising threats

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys must do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had actually gone up “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reevaluate which clinical problems need their input. It was among a number of problems 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 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 agencies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote long-term US daytime saving 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 halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has actually been in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law companies, 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 must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid specialists and grant receivers by 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Monday, a 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.