Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters 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 promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, three people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal labor force decreases overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former 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 submitted lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct 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 hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives need to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said 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 against the judiciary had actually increased « exponentially. »

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in protected 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 but said he would reevaluate which scientific problems need their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells 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 final say on staffing and policy at their firms, 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 was in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean « Diddy » Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers to work long hours and to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still faces 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 innocent.

US federal employees hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style grievances 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 given that last week and, along with other law practice, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.