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US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amid 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 today, three people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk harmful 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 overseen 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 chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’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 financial backing.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on increasing hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats versus the judiciary had actually gone up « exponentially. »

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reevaluate which scientific 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 informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel 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 firms, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 was in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to make the many of the longer evenings – has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean « Diddy » Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees 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 engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, along with other law practice, plan to cause 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 help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 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 professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive 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 invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.