Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as advocates 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 took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous 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 town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted 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 assistance.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers against the judiciary had actually gone up “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reassess which clinical concerns require their input. It was one of a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, 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, are in charge of personnel 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 firms, 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 stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Push for permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the many of the longer evenings – has been in location in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, but supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law firms, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big 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 must make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive 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 submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.