Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out 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 been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal labor force reductions managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have submitted claims 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 area,' US judge states on rising hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion 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 stated hazards versus the judiciary had actually increased "tremendously."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would review which clinical concerns require their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to 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 last word on staffing and policy at their firms, 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 said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Promote permanent US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights - has been in place in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, however advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of 'required labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul 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 faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

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 complaints claiming that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, along with other law companies, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 demand to prevent a due date 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 recipients 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 buys the government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.