Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that current and previous 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 commands massive federal workforce decreases 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct 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 states on rising dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards against the judiciary had increased “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would review which scientific concerns require their input. It was among a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near 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 told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has been in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with new indictment, is implicated of ‘required labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 transport to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired employees are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of countless individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, in addition to other law office, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 request to prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.