Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal workforce decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic attorneys basic lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have actually filed suits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary assistance.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys must do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers against the judiciary had actually gone up “greatly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was one of several problems 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 two hours.

Trump informs cabinet 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 familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has remained in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, but proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers 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 workers are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people 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 recently and, in addition to 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 should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 demand 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 professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.