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 fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans 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 college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests 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 brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force 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 lawyers general 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 a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial assistance.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge states on rising dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards against the judiciary had actually gone up “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in secured 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 advisers but stated he would reevaluate which clinical issues need their input. It was one of numerous concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two 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 last word 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 just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote long-term US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has remained in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are illegal and 10s of thousands of individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, together with other law office, plan 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 aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help 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 request 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 claim by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.