Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates 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 promised to deport non-citizen university student 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 unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, three individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal workforce decreases managed 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 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 attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats against the judiciary had actually gone up « tremendously. »

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would review which scientific issues need 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 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 last say on staffing and policy at their firms, 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 told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have 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 evenings – has 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 faces new indictment, is accused of ‘required labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, in addition to other law practice, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid professionals 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 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 lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.