Reuters United States Domestic News Summary
Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.
US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal workforce decreases supervised 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 lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually submitted suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial backing.
‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on increasing dangers
Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers need 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 activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks versus the judiciary had actually gone up “significantly.”
Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in secured Senate look
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would review which clinical issues require their input. It was among several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two 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 companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source said.
Promote irreversible US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states 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 evenly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, but proponents have pushed to make it year-round.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.
US federal workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action problems
U.S. federal government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of countless people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, together with other law companies, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.
Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines
The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.
