Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw 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 perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning 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 participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal labor force decreases 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 lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked 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 attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed claims to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial support.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising threats

against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers versus the judiciary had increased «exponentially.»

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in guarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reevaluate which clinical concerns require their input. It was among several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel 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 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 was in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, 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 halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has remained in location in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean «Diddy» Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed workers are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law firms, strategy to bring about 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 aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help 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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.