Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views 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 and has vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part 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 variety of current hires this week, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal labor force reductions managed 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have actually submitted 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 says on increasing threats

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

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would reevaluate which scientific issues need their input. It was among a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise 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 firms, 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 stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying 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 make the most of the longer evenings – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help 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 take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law office, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.