Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal workforce reductions supervised 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 combined by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually submitted claims 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 rising hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers need to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards versus the judiciary had actually increased “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells 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 final say 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 function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, however supporters have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring workers 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, sex trafficking and transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are illegal and 10s of thousands of people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, along with other law practice, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid professionals 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant receivers 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 buys the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.