Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive 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 town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have submitted lawsuits 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 dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 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 stated risks versus the judiciary had actually increased “greatly.”

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

Martin Makary, Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would review which clinical issues need their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word 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 just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daytime conserving 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 saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has remained in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help 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 take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees struck back 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 hired employees are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, along with other law companies, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid professionals 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 due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by contractors 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 billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.