Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive federal workforce decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually 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’re in a dark space,’ US judge states on rising hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers need to 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 clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reassess which clinical issues need their input. It was among a number of concerns 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 two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel 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 knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was good 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 daytime 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 problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has actually been in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal workers struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the purge of just recently employed workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of countless individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law practice, strategy to cause 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 rules

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help contractors and grant recipients 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 prevent 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 aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.