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 artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, three individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk 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 enormous federal workforce decreases 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, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed lawsuits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion 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 against the judiciary had increased « tremendously. »

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was one of a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told 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 acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Push for irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has been in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a 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 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 countered at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. federal government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of thousands of people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems considering that last week and, along with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help professionals and grant receivers 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 due date for the payments. The ruling 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 billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.