Reuters United States 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 synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates 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 pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian that have been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal workforce reductions managed 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually 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’re in a dark area,’ US judge says on rising dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys should do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said 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 against the judiciary had gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would reassess which clinical issues require their input. It was among a number of problems 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 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 last say on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, 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 season half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are illegal and tens of countless people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had filed 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 recent weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.