Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, three people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force reductions managed 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 chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually filed 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 backing.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising risks

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives must do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats against the judiciary had gone up “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would reassess which scientific issues need their input. It was one of several concerns 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 informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say 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 function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Push for permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says 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 concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to make the most of the longer nights – has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however supporters have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. federal government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of countless people need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, together with other law office, strategy 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 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 judgment 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 billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.