Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amidst 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 multitude of recent hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous 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 chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed 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 assistance.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks against the judiciary had increased „exponentially.”

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

Martin Makary, Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reassess which scientific issues need their input. It was one of numerous concerns 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 two hours.

Trump tells 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 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 function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daytime 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 actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. 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 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 deals with new indictment, is accused 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 actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of countless people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, along with other law office, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.