Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing 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 demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, three people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal labor force reductions overseen 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 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 previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have submitted claims 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’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives need to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers versus the judiciary had increased “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would review which clinical issues require their input. It was one of numerous problems 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 2 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 say 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 remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, but proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 transport to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed employees are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of thousands of individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, together with other law firms, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration should 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 request to avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit 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 orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.