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 supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives 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 university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, three individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal labor force decreases supervised 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 combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have actually filed claims to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary assistance.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers against the judiciary had increased “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded 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 however stated he would reassess which scientific problems require their input. It was one of numerous concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs 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 last word 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 room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has actually remained in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring 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 engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of countless individuals ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, along with other law firms, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid specialists and grant recipients 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 recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.