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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 expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as fans 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 college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive federal workforce decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall
Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually submitted lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct 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 risks
Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards versus the judiciary had increased « greatly. »
Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in protected Senate appearance
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would reevaluate which clinical concerns need their input. It was among a number of concerns 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 2 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 word on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.
Push for irreversible US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have pressed to make it year-round.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’
U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new Sean « Diddy » Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.
US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action problems
U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, along with 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 recent weeks.
Trump administration should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines
The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 demand to prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling 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 wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.