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 supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force reductions managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually submitted claims to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial assistance.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers against the judiciary had actually gone up “significantly.”

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would reassess which scientific issues need their input. It was among a number of issues 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 personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their companies, 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 was in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has actually remained in place in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but supporters 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 new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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, and transportation to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently hired workers are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of countless people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law practice, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

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 request to avoid 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 professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.