Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees 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 pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually 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 multitude of current hires today, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal labor force decreases 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have actually submitted suits 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 area,’ US judge states on rising threats

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys must do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards against the judiciary had gone up “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would review which scientific problems need their input. It was one of a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel 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 companies, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Push for long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, 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 summer season half of the year to make the most of the longer nights – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. 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 actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling 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 extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.