Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates 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 actually pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, three people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and former 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 presides over massive federal workforce reductions overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have filed suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and .

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four 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 hazards against the judiciary had actually increased “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reevaluate which clinical problems need their input. It was among several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs 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 agencies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 transport to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of thousands of people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, together with other law firms, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid contractors 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.