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 fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out 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 ongoing for months military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal workforce reductions managed 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 lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed 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 support.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers should do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards against the judiciary had actually increased «tremendously.»

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in guarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would reassess which scientific 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 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 knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time — putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer nights — has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘required labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean «Diddy» Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are illegal and 10s of countless people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently 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 recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 demand to avoid a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.