Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal workforce decreases managed 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 united by Democratic attorneys basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have filed suits to ask judges to obstruct 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 area,’ US judge says on rising threats

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks against the judiciary had increased « exponentially. »

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reevaluate which clinical problems need their input. It was one of a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close 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, 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 say on staffing and policy at their agencies, 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 was in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, but proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul 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 of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government employees who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, in addition to other law office, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid professionals 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.