Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, 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, 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 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 variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce reductions 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 combined by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed suits 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 remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing threats

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys need to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had actually gone up “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would review which clinical issues need their input. It was one of a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while facing 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 role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight 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 issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has remained in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is implicated of labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 transportation to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of countless individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law office, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid professionals 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 request 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 lawsuit 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 an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.