Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part 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 unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive 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 city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have 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 financial backing.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers must do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion 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 risks versus the judiciary had actually gone up « exponentially. »

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reassess which scientific issues require their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise 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 companies, according to a source familiar 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 remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has actually been in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, implicating 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 transport to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass firings with class action problems

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of countless individuals must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law practice, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to help contractors 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 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 contractors and non-profit grant receivers 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 buys the government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.