Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates 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 pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and former 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 administers over huge 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 town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have submitted lawsuits 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’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on increasing hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers ought 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 criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers versus the judiciary had actually increased “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors 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 advisors however stated he would reevaluate which clinical problems need their input. It was among several problems 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 2 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 agencies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to make the many of the longer nights – has actually remained in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on 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 complaints

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of countless individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, along with other law office, strategy to produce 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 rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling 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 comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.