Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amid Israel’s military assault 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 today, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful 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 labor force reductions 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 attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, 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 financial support.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing threats

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers need 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 crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats versus the judiciary had actually increased “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, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reevaluate which scientific problems require their input. It was among a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, 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 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 remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent 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 daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has been in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate 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 deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of countless individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, along with other law practice, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid 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 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 professionals and non-profit grant receivers 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 purchases the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.