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Reuters United States 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 fans, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned 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 administers over massive federal labor force decreases overseen 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 brought together by Democratic attorneys basic lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have actually submitted lawsuits 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 space,’ US judge says on increasing threats

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards against the judiciary had gone up “exponentially.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in guarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would review which clinical issues need their input. It was among a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff 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 agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states 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 uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has been in place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are and tens of countless individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, together with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

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 demand to prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.