Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters 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 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 unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal workforce reductions overseen 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 brought together by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct 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 increasing hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers ought to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers against the judiciary had gone up “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in secured 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 consultants but stated he would reassess which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel 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 agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 was in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent 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 conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating 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 maximize the longer evenings – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new indictment, is implicated of ‘required labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees struck back at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with workers are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, together with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by specialists 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 federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.