Reuters US Domestic News Summary
Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.
US to use AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests 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 undefined variety of brand-new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, 3 people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned 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 commands huge federal labor force reductions supervised 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 combined by Democratic lawyers basic lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief 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 monetary assistance.
‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing dangers
Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers must do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four 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 dangers versus the judiciary had actually gone up “exponentially.”
Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in guarded Senate look
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however said he would reevaluate which clinical problems need their input. It was one of several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near 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, supervise of staff cuts
U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say 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 function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.
Push for permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has actually been in location in almost all of the United States given that 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 mogul of requiring staff members 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 take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.
US federal employees struck back at Trump with class action complaints
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 claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of countless people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law office, plan 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 need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules
The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.
