Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal labor force decreases 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 chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed 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 backing.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives should do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats against the judiciary had increased “exponentially.”

candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in protected 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 advisers but said he would reevaluate which scientific problems need their input. It was among numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two 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 agencies, 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 said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the many of the longer nights – has remained in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, but supporters have 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 brand-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 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 not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with workers are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of countless individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since 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 current weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign aid 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 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 claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.