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Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke 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 promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force reductions supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorneys general 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 lawyers basic, who have actually filed claims 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 remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and 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 meeting on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers versus the judiciary had actually gone up « significantly. »

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would reevaluate which scientific problems require their input. It was one of numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while facing 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 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 advisory role 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 daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has been in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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 workers are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law practice, plan to produce 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 aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.