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Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing 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 slew of current hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce reductions overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have actually submitted 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 assistance.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising threats

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives need to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said 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 dangers against the judiciary had actually increased « tremendously. »

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would review which clinical concerns require their input. It was among a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with 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 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 just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, 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 maximize the longer evenings – has been in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have 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 unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul 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 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 innocent.

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

U.S. federal government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of thousands of individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law firms, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees 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 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 request 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 lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.