Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use 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 authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, 3 people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current 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 massive federal workforce decreases overseen 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 combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have submitted lawsuits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial support.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers versus the judiciary had actually gone up “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would reevaluate which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, 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, 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 firms, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of countless people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, together with other law companies, 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 need to make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.