Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives 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 pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months amid 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 slew of current hires this week, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force decreases managed 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 attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually 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 space,’ US judge says on rising risks

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys should 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 crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards against the judiciary had gone up « significantly. »

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would reevaluate which clinical concerns require their input. It was one of numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, 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, are in charge 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 firms, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to make the many of the longer evenings – has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

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

US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of thousands of individuals need to 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 considering that recently and, together with other law companies, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 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 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 billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.