Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires today, three people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force reductions supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging 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 actually filed lawsuits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys 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 conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards against the judiciary had increased “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reassess which clinical problems require 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 Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their companies, 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 excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. 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 been in place in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, in addition to 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 current weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.