Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

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

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal labor force reductions managed 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 combined by Democratic attorneys basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’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 backing.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on increasing threats

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

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in safeguarded 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 advisors but said he would reassess which scientific problems need their input. It was one of numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near 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 told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has actually been in location in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, but advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 transport to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired workers are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of countless people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law practice, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers 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 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 demand to prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers 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 purchases the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.