Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, three people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of damaging 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 reductions supervised 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have 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 financial support.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge states on increasing dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives must do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated risks versus the judiciary had increased “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in guarded 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 advisors but said he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was one of a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, 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, 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 familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote 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 halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer nights – has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, however proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 transportation to participate in prostitution. He has actually not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law office, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 lawsuit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.