Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans 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 promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amidst Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful 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 decreases 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic chief law officers, 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 remain in a dark space,' US judge states on rising dangers

against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers against the judiciary had actually increased "tremendously."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would review which scientific issues need their input. It was one of numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near 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 final say on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has been in place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, but advocates 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 against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers struck back at Trump mass firings with class action problems

U.S. federal government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently employed workers are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of countless people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law companies, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to 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 demand to avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.