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Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign students 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 actually promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk 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 massive federal labor force 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 combined by Democratic attorneys basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’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, his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial backing.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives must do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation 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 stated hazards against the judiciary had actually gone up « greatly. »

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however stated he would reevaluate which clinical issues need their input. It was among several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, 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 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 room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has remained in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, but advocates have pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors 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 punish those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law practice, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help 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 demand to prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.