Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing 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 participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have 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 variety of recent hires this week, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal labor force decreases managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

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 hurting previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually submitted lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial backing.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys must do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers against the judiciary had actually gone up “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reevaluate which clinical problems need their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge 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 firms, according to a source acquainted 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 space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says 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 evenly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to make the many of the longer nights – has been in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but supporters have pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees 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 actually pleaded innocent.

US federal workers struck back at Trump mass firings with class action problems

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, together with other law practice, plan to produce 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 aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 prevent 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 contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald 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 billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.