Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, 3 individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive federal workforce reductions overseen 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have filed claims to ask judges to obstruct 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 rising dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers ought to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers against the judiciary had gone up «greatly.»

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors 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 advisors however said he would reassess which clinical problems need their input. It was one of numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close 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 told 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 familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Promote US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time — putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings — has remained in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean «Diddy» Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members 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 transport to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, in addition to other law companies, plan 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 should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit 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 a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.