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 sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal labor force 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 combined by Democratic lawyers basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting 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 attorneys general, who have actually submitted lawsuits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial assistance.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge states on dangers

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

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would review which scientific problems require their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to 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 last word on staffing and policy at their companies, 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 told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote irreversible US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has actually been in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean « Diddy » Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of countless people need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration should 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 demand to prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.