Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal workforce reductions supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted suits 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 remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising threats

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 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 risks against the judiciary had gone up “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in guarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would review which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells 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 say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired workers are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of countless people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, along with other law practice, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to 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 prevent a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.