Reuters US Domestic News Summary
Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.
US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal workforce reductions managed 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 brought together by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed claims to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and .
‘We’re in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing hazards
Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion 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 said dangers against the judiciary had gone up “significantly.”
Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in protected Senate look
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two 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 last word on staffing and policy at their companies, 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 remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.
Promote long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving 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 throughout the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has actually been in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have pushed to make it year-round.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces 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 requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.
US federal workers struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints
U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of countless people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, in addition to other law companies, 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 guidelines
The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 demand to avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by professionals 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 purchases the federal government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.
