Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke 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 actually pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas‘ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted 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 huge federal labor force reductions 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 combined by Democratic lawyers basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed suits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary assistance.

‚We remain in a dark space,‘ US judge states on increasing threats

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

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would reevaluate which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to 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 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 acquainted 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 great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Push for irreversible US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – 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 ‚forced labor‘

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean „Diddy“ Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 transportation to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law firms, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent 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 contractors 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 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 specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.