Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months amid 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 current hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. nationwide 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 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have 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 assistance.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion 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 threats versus the judiciary had increased “exponentially.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would reevaluate which scientific problems need their input. It was one of a number of 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 informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff 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 agencies, 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 remained in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

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

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating 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 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 hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. 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 claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of countless people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, along with other law office, plan 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 should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit 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 a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.