Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months amidst 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 today, three people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal labor force reductions managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam 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 blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed claims to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and backing.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys must do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks versus the judiciary had actually increased “exponentially.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors however said he would reevaluate which clinical issues require their input. It was among several issues 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 informs 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 last say 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 just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source said.

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

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

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members 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 transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees 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 worked with employees are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, in addition to other law office, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.