Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, 3 people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal labor force decreases 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 united by Democratic lawyers basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually submitted claims to ask judges to obstruct 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 area,’ US judge says on rising hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks against the judiciary had actually increased „significantly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would reassess which clinical issues need their input. It was among several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise 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 agencies, 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 said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Promote permanent US daylight conserving 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 actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to make the many of the longer nights – has actually been in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys 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 faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed employees are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of thousands of people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, in addition to other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 demand to prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.