Reuters US Domestic News Summary

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 expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amid 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 variety of recent hires today, three individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal labor force reductions managed 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have filed lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary assistance.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las court stated threats against the judiciary had increased “tremendously.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would review which clinical issues need their input. It was among several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their agencies, 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 said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating 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 evenings – has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass firings with class action problems

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of thousands of people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, together with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 request 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 claim by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.