Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use 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 officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned 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 commands huge federal workforce reductions supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorneys general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have actually submitted claims to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial assistance.

‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge says on rising risks

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers against the judiciary had actually increased “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would reassess which scientific concerns need their input. It was among several problems 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 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul 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 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 actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees hit back at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, in addition to other law firms, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current 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 demand to prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling 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 wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.