Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters 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 pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, three people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal workforce decreases managed 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 united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have actually submitted suits 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 space,’ US judge says on rising hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks against the judiciary had gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would reevaluate which scientific problems require their input. It was among several 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 word on staffing and policy at their companies, 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 said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Push for permanent US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring 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 faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal workers struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. federal government workers who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, together with other law practice, plan to bring about 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 guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 request to avoid a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals 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 invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.