Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-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 knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, 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 risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers need to 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 white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats against the judiciary had increased « significantly. »

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in guarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would reevaluate which clinical concerns need their input. It was among a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs 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 last say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating 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 take advantage of the longer evenings – has remained in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean « Diddy » Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of individuals need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, in addition to other law firms, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

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 request to avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers 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 sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.