Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates 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 vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal workforce decreases supervised 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 chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have filed suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and .

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats versus the judiciary had gone up “greatly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reevaluate which clinical problems need their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells 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 word 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 just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has been in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring 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 faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, together with other law firms, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by professionals 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 purchases the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.