Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as supporters 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 university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal labor force decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam 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 neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have 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 monetary support.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives ought to 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 crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards versus the judiciary had increased “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would reassess which scientific issues need their input. It was one of numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge 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 agencies, 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 excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Push for irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers 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 innocent.

US federal workers struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, in addition to other law firms, 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 aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 demand to avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.