Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present 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 withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates 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 actually promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have actually filed 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 backing.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks against the judiciary had gone up “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would reassess which scientific concerns need their input. It was among numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with 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 firms, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Push for long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have stopped, 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 make the most of the longer nights – has actually been in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring workers 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 employees struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, along with other law firms, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must 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 avoid a deadline 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 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 purchases the government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.