Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually 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 people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide . The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force 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 disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually submitted claims 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 remain in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys should do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation 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 stated risks versus the judiciary had actually gone up «greatly.»

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would review which clinical problems require their input. It was among several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near 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 informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word 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 function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight conserving 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 place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors 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 scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. federal government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of thousands of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, together with other law companies, plan to produce 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 rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.