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 sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees 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 pledged to deport non-citizen college students 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 undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal labor force reductions 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 combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial assistance.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers should do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks versus the judiciary had gone up “significantly.”

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, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reassess which clinical problems need their input. It was one of numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told 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 only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daylight saving 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 stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has actually been in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, together with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 completion of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.