Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, three individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal labor force decreases supervised 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 lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys basic, 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 monetary assistance.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys need to 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 criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats versus the judiciary had actually increased «exponentially.»

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate 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 issues need their input. It was one of several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, 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, supervise 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 firms, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Promote irreversible US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time — putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer nights — has actually been 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 deals with new indictment, is accused of ‘required labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean «Diddy» Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. 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 pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees 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 just recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, along with other law firms, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration must 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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by professionals 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 purchases the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.