Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen university student 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 unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, three people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal workforce decreases supervised 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 combined by Democratic attorneys general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, 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 support.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing threats

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers 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 conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers versus the judiciary had gone up “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reevaluate which clinical problems need their input. It was among numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near 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 personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 told the cabinet he was great 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 daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has actually been in place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with new indictment, is accused of ‘required labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed workers are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of thousands of people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, together with other law office, plan to produce 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 aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help contractors and grant receivers by 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Monday, a ruled on Thursday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed the administration’s request to avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.