Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months amid 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 variety of current hires today, three individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive federal workforce reductions managed 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 attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting 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 actually submitted claims 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’re in a dark area,’ US judge states on rising dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives should do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats versus the judiciary had increased « tremendously. »

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was one of a number of problems 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 2 hours.

Trump informs 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 final 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 just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has actually remained in place in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however supporters have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 innocent.

US federal employees struck back at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. government employees who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, together 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 should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors 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 buys the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.