Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part 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 variety of recent hires this week, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal labor force 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 brought together by Democratic lawyers general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have 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 support.

‘We’re in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing risks

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives should do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated risks versus the judiciary had gone up “significantly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would reassess which scientific issues require their input. It was among several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge 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 agencies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has been in place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however 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 revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul 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 engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers 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 employed employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are illegal and 10s of thousands of people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law office, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the . It buys the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.