Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. 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 participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amidst 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 recent hires this week, three individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s 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 knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding 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 nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, 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 financial backing.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks against the judiciary had actually gone up “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would reassess which clinical concerns require their input. It was one of a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while facing 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 firms, according to a source familiar 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 was in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has been in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring employees 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 participate in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law office, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration should 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 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 professionals and non-profit grant receivers Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.