Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations 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 recent hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal workforce decreases 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 blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually submitted suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial backing.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing risks

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys need to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks versus the judiciary had increased “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would reassess which clinical concerns need their input. It was among a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells 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 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 role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

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

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

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees hit 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 recently employed workers are responding with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of countless people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, together with other law practice, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.