Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans 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 college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, three individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of destructive 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 managed 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 combined by Democratic lawyers general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have submitted suits to ask judges to block 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 space,’ US judge says on increasing threats

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference 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 gone up «tremendously.»

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors 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 advisers but said he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was one of several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs 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 function just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daylight conserving 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 halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time — putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings — has been in place in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, however supporters have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean «Diddy» Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex . Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of countless individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, together with other law companies, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end 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 government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.