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Reuters United States Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views 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 actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests 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 variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal labor force reductions overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted suits to ask judges to obstruct 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 states on increasing hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives must do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats against the judiciary had actually gone up “tremendously.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would reassess which clinical issues require their input. It was one of numerous concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to 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 informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source said.

Promote permanent US daylight 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 halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has remained in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. federal government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, along 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 current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 demand to prevent a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s comprehensive 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 billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.