Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amid 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 today, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge 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 united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former 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 submitted 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 support.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge says on rising risks

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers must do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers versus the judiciary had actually gone up « tremendously. »

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would review which clinical problems require their input. It was among numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs 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 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 said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Push for irreversible US daytime saving 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 halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has been in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but advocates have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of countless individuals must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, in addition to other law companies, strategy to cause 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 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 demand to prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.