Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, three people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal workforce reductions managed 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 blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually submitted lawsuits 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 remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on increasing hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats against the judiciary had gone up “exponentially.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reassess which scientific problems require their input. It was among numerous problems 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, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their firms, 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 stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during 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 given that the 1960s, but advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. federal government employees who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, in addition to other law office, strategy to bring about 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 rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.