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Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives 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 promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, three people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal labor force reductions overseen 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 united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed claims to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

'We're in a dark area,' US judge says on rising hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers need to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference 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 "exponentially."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in guarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was one of numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near 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 companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights - has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces 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 requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of individuals must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, along with other law office, 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 help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration must 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 due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.