Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates 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 actually pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal workforce decreases overseen 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 combined by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have actually submitted suits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial backing.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards against the judiciary had gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would review which scientific issues require their input. It was one of numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed 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 knowledgeable about 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 was in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but advocates have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of countless people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law office, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid 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 ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.