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Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous 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 combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have submitted claims to ask judges to obstruct 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 rising hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats versus the judiciary had actually increased « significantly. »

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in secured 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 advisors but stated he would review which scientific problems require their input. It was one of numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff 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 role just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote long-term US daytime 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 actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has been in location in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of individuals must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law office, strategy to produce 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 need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 demand to avoid a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers 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 purchases the federal government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.