Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans 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 vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have 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 new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force reductions supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have actually filed lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct 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 space,’ US judge states on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers against the judiciary had actually gone up “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reevaluate which clinical concerns need their input. It was among several issues 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 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge 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 function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to make the many of the longer evenings – has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 transport to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are illegal and tens of countless individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law practice, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help professionals and grant receivers 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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.