Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as supporters 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 vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amidst 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 recent hires today, 3 with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-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 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 overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have submitted lawsuits 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 area,’ US judge states on increasing risks

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers need to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion 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 hazards against the judiciary had gone up “exponentially.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reevaluate which clinical issues require their input. It was among a number of concerns 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 say 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 role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime 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 concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still faces 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 not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, together with other law office, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help 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 request to avoid a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit 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 an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.