Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views 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 combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted 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 town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually submitted suits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial support.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys must do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks versus the judiciary had actually increased “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in safeguarded 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 consultants but said he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was one of numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel 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 companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Push for permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has remained in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 participate in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are responding with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, in addition to 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 recent weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must 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 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 claim by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.