Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

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

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, 3 people acquainted with 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 massive federal workforce decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, 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 financial support.

‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge states on increasing dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel 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 dangers versus the judiciary had gone up “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reevaluate which clinical issues need their input. It was among 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 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 function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

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

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is accused of ‘required labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 pleaded innocent.

US federal workers struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. federal government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of countless people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law practice, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to 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 prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant receivers 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 orders the government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.