Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current 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 revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans 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 promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations 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 new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 people familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal labor force decreases managed by 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 attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases 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 support.
‘We remain in a dark area,’ US judge says on rising risks
Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks versus the judiciary had actually increased “significantly.”
Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in secured 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 consultants but said he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was among several concerns 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 two hours.
Trump tells 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 last say on staffing and policy at their agencies, 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 stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.
Promote long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible 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 conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer nights – has remained in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have pressed to make it year-round.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.
US federal workers hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances
U.S. government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are illegal and 10s of thousands of individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, along with other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.
Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines
The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 request to avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive 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 invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.