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Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal workforce reductions 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 lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have actually submitted lawsuits to ask judges to block 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 space,’ US judge states on increasing dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives should do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards against the judiciary had gone up « exponentially. »

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in guarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would reevaluate which clinical concerns need their input. It was among a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while 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 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 familiar 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 space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daytime conserving 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 actually 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 during the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has been in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.