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

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

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force decreases managed 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 combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, 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 backing.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge states on increasing dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers should do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 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 risks against the judiciary had actually gone up “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reassess which clinical concerns require their input. It was among a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge 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 acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Push for long-term US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has 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 deals with new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate 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 deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of countless people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, in addition to other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 demand to avoid a due date 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 recipients 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 orders the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.