Reuters US Domestic News Summary
Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.
US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part 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 number of brand-new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal labor force reductions supervised 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 attorneys basic lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding 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 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 financial backing.
‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing threats
Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation 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 dangers against the judiciary had actually increased “exponentially.”
Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in guarded 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 consultants but stated he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was among a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.
Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff 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 companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.
Promote long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’
U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-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 transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.
US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings 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 claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, in addition to other law firms, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.
Trump administration must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules
The Trump administration must make some payments to 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 request to avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.