Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees 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 fight antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted 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 administers over 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

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic attorneys general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, 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 financial backing.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge states on rising dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated 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 stated risks versus the judiciary had actually gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in protected Senate look

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

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge 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 companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has been in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. federal government employees who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, in addition to other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 completion of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.