Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force decreases supervised 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 brought together by Democratic lawyers general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually submitted lawsuits 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 risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks versus the judiciary had actually gone up “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors 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 consultants but said he would reevaluate which clinical issues require their input. It was among numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near 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 last word on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source familiar 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 room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote permanent US time frozen as Trump says 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 summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has been in place in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, but proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 transport to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. government employees who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of countless people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, together with other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid contractors 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 completion of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.