Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current 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 destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal labor force 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually submitted claims to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary assistance.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four 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 said threats against the judiciary had actually gone up “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would reevaluate which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of numerous 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 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 say on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source familiar 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 remained in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to make the most of the longer nights – has actually remained in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘required labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed workers are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, together with other law practice, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 prevent a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion 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 buys the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.