Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives 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 promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months in the middle of 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 variety of recent hires this week, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce decreases overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

groups and veterans united by Democratic attorneys general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have actually filed suits 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’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on increasing threats

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers need to 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 clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers against the judiciary had actually gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was one of a number of issues 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 told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional 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 equally divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to make the many of the longer nights – has been in location in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul 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 deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law companies, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 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 suit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.