Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal labor force reductions supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually filed 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 risks

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting 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 role for vaccine consultants in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reassess which clinical problems need their input. It was one of several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs 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 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 space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to make the many of the longer nights – has been in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members 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 take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of countless people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law firms, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 demand to avoid a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.