Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have 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 current hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force reductions supervised 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have actually submitted claims 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 area,’ US judge says on increasing threats

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion 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 stated hazards against the judiciary had actually gone up “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in secured 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 consultants however said he would reassess which clinical problems require 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 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 knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights – has remained in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, but advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating 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 scheme. 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 actually pleaded innocent.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed employees are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of thousands of people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.