Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force decreases supervised 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have 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 financial backing.

’We’re in a dark area,’ US judge says on rising hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers need to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation 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 threats versus the judiciary had increased ”exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would review which scientific problems need their input. It was among several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with 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 informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A effort to make daytime 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 conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has remained in place in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean ”Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members 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 transportation to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion 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 purchases the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.