Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters 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 pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated 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 new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force 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 united by Democratic lawyers basic lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed suits 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 increasing and attorneys ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation 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 stated dangers against the judiciary had actually gone up “tremendously.”

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 lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was among numerous concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel 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 familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daylight 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 halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings – has remained in in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, but advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing 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 take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired workers are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law practice, strategy 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 help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should 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 request 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 professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.