Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, three people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal labor force decreases overseen 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 united by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former 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 actually submitted lawsuits to ask judges to block 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 states on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards against the judiciary had increased “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would reassess which scientific problems need their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel 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 companies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote long-term US daylight saving 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 equally divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has been in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees hit back at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of countless individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, together with other law companies, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign help 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 prevent 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 contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.