Reuters United States 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 use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees 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 variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, 3 people familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk destructive 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 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 combined by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually filed suits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary assistance.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on increasing hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys need to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats versus the judiciary had gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reevaluate which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told 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 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 remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Push for permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-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 faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, in addition to other law office, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 request to avoid a due date for the . The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.