Reuters US Domestic News Summary
Following is a summary of existing 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 artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of 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 multitude of current hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal workforce decreases overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center
Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have submitted lawsuits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and backing.
‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge states on rising threats
Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical 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 candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate appearance
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would reassess which scientific problems need their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.
Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff 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 role just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source said.
Push for long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the many of the longer evenings – has been in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.
US federal employees hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action problems
U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law companies, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.
Trump administration must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines
The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim 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 a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.