Reuters US Domestic News Summary
Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.
US to utilize AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an undefined number of new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, three people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal labor force decreases 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 brought together by Democratic lawyers basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have 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 monetary assistance.
‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on rising dangers
Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated risks versus the judiciary had actually gone up “tremendously.”
Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate appearance
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would review which clinical concerns require their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, 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 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 only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.
Push for long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally 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 been in location in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.
US federal workers struck back at Trump mass firings with class action grievances
U.S. government employees who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of thousands of individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, together with other law office, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.
Trump administration should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules
The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid contractors 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 due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.
