Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use 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 students 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 combat antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated 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 number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal labor force reductions managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating 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 country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial assistance.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on rising hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers must do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 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 dangers versus the judiciary had gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reevaluate which clinical issues need their input. It was among a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close 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. Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote long-term 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 halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. 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 remained in place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however supporters have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a 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 scheme. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of countless people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, along with other law practice, 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 must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

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 avoid a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging 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 billings sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.