Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force decreases supervised by billionaire and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, 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 backing.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on increasing dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives should do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats versus the judiciary had actually gone up « exponentially. »

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers however stated he would reassess which clinical issues need their input. It was one of a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near 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 familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has been in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, but supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean « Diddy » Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still faces 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 employees 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 employed workers are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of countless individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, together with other law firms, 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 need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.