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Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system 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 combat antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have 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 brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, three people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal workforce reductions supervised 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 united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually submitted lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary assistance.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on rising hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had increased « exponentially. »

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reassess which clinical problems require their input. It was among several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff cuts

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

Promote irreversible US daytime 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 equally divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has remained in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus 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 deals with 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 shootings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of countless individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, along 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 should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should 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 avoid a due date 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 aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.