Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in 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 number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, three individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force reductions managed 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 chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually submitted suits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers should 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 clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated risks versus the judiciary had gone up “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in guarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reassess which scientific issues require 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 informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel 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 function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has actually been in place in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate 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 engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action problems

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are illegal and tens of countless people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law companies, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid 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 demand to avoid a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.