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Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates 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 promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce decreases overseen 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 attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have filed lawsuits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial backing.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge states on increasing hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers should do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats versus the judiciary had actually gone up « greatly. »

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reassess which clinical concerns require their input. It was among several 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 staff 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 knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has actually been in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new indictment, is implicated of ‘required labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 transport to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of countless individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, along with other law firms, 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 should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid professionals 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 demand to prevent 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 recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.