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 advocates, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates 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 vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, three individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal workforce decreases overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall
Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 law officers, 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 financial backing.
‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge states on rising dangers
Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers against the judiciary had actually gone up “greatly.”
Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in safeguarded Senate appearance
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would review which scientific problems need their input. It was among several 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 say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.
Push for irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, however proponents have pressed to make it year-round.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’
U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.
US federal workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints
U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of countless people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, in addition to other law office, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.
Trump administration should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines
The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid contractors 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 receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, 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 case before February 13.