Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, three individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive federal workforce decreases managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic lawyers basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually 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 financial support.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge states 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 conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks against the judiciary had actually gone up “tremendously.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was among a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the many of the longer evenings – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate 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 not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government employees who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of individuals need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law companies, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, 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.