Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, three people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force reductions 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 attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge states on increasing threats

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

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would reassess which scientific problems require their input. It was one of a number of issues 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 informed 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 acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Push for long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight saving time — putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights — has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with 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 participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees struck back at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of countless people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, in addition to other law office, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign help 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 ruled on Thursday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed the administration’s request 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 claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.