Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal labor force reductions overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together 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 harming previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have actually filed claims 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’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives 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 conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers versus the judiciary had actually increased « exponentially. »

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would review which scientific issues require their input. It was one of numerous 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 staff 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 knowledgeable about 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 excellent with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says 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 saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to make the most of the longer nights – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, but advocates have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean « Diddy » Combs, accusing 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 take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of countless individuals need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, together 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 current weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign aid 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 demand 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 professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.