Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students 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 fight antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas‘ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal workforce reductions overseen 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 lawyers general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually 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 monetary support.

‚We remain in a dark area,‘ US judge states on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers need to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation 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 hazards against the judiciary had actually increased „significantly.“

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reevaluate which clinical concerns require their input. It was among several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, 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, supervise of personnel 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 firms, according to a source acquainted with 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 was in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

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

Sean ‚Diddy‘ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‚required labor‘

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean „Diddy“ Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 transport to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people should 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 considering that last week and, together with other law practice, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.