Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates 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 vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amidst 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 variety of recent hires today, three people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal labor force reductions overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

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 blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have actually submitted claims to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards against the judiciary had actually increased «significantly.»

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would reassess which scientific problems need their input. It was one of numerous 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 informs 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 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 only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Push for permanent US daylight saving 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 stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to make the many of the longer nights – has remained in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean «Diddy» Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of countless people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, together with 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 help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration must 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 request to prevent a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by contractors and recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.