Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful 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 city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed lawsuits 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 remain in a dark area,’ US judge states on rising hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards versus the judiciary had actually gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reassess which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise 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 companies, 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 said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, but advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers hit 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 employed employees are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of thousands of individuals need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, together with other law practice, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 claim 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 an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.