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 advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal labor force decreases overseen 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 lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting 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 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 financial support.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards versus the judiciary had actually gone up « tremendously. »

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however said he would reevaluate which scientific issues require 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, are in charge of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed 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 function just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has been in location in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however supporters have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean « Diddy » Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. federal government employees who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are and tens of countless individuals must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, together with other law office, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

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