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Following is a summary of present 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 use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views 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 combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive federal workforce 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 chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have actually submitted suits 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’re in a dark area,’ US judge states on rising threats

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation 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 risks versus the judiciary had actually gone up « exponentially. »

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would review which clinical issues require their input. It was among a number of problems 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 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 remained in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has remained in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have pressed to make it year-round.

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

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

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of thousands of people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently 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 current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to 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 due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients 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 submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.