Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amidst Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge labor force decreases 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 combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary assistance.

‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on increasing dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 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 hazards against the judiciary had increased “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors however said he would review which scientific issues need their input. It was among numerous 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 two 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 role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daytime conserving 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 stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has actually remained in place in nearly 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 ‘forced labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of countless people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with 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 must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid contractors 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 judgment 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 extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.