Reuters US Domestic News Summary

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated 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 number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings 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 knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted claims to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge states on increasing risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives need to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said 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 said threats versus the judiciary had actually gone up “exponentially.”

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

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

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff 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 knowledgeable about 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 good with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Push for irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has actually remained in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of countless people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law practice, 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 guidelines

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.