Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current 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 synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as supporters 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 actually vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, three people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal labor force decreases managed 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 combined 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 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 financial backing.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge states on increasing risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys should 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 criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers versus the judiciary had actually increased “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would reevaluate which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near 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, are in charge of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say 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 stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daylight 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 actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. 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 nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents 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 revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of thousands of people need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, together with other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers 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 government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.