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 sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires today, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force reductions managed 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 combined by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed suits 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 dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys 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 meeting on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards versus the judiciary had increased “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reassess which clinical issues require their input. It was one of a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told 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 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 was in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has actually been in place in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired workers are responding with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of thousands of people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, in addition to other law office, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 prevent a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.