Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters 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 vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal labor force reductions supervised 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 chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged 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 remain in a dark area,’ US judge states on rising risks

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys should do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference 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 „tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would review which scientific issues require their input. It was among several 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 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 firms, 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 excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving 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 throughout the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has been in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean „Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul 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 faces a 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 workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of countless individuals ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 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 employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 due date 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 comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.