Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, 3 individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal workforce reductions overseen 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 combined by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have submitted claims to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial support.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated risks versus the judiciary had actually gone up “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was among several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say 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 function just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote long-term US daylight saving 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 actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however supporters have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 transportation to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of countless people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that 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 workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end 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 purchases the federal government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.