Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted 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 enormous federal labor force reductions managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have actually 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 backing.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives should do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks versus the judiciary had increased «tremendously.»

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however stated he would reassess which scientific concerns need their input. It was among numerous concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries 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 last word on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Promote permanent US daytime 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 stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. 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 place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean «Diddy» Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of countless individuals must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law firms, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 prevent 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 receivers 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 buys the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.