Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal workforce reductions overseen 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 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 damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed 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 says on rising dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats against the judiciary had actually gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would review which scientific concerns require their input. It was among several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs 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 final say on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source acquainted 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 was in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of thousands of people should get their tasks back. at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law office, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help 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 avoid a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.