Reuters US Domestic News Summary

Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives 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 actually pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part 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 undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, 3 individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force decreases managed 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 united by Democratic attorneys general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country’s 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have filed 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 backing.

‚We remain in a dark area,‘ US judge says on rising dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives must do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation 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 threats against the judiciary had actually increased „significantly.“

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would review which scientific problems need their input. It was one of several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source acquainted with 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 good with Trump’s strategy, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has actually been in location in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, but supporters have pushed to make it year-round.

Sean ‚Diddy‘ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is accused of ‚required labor‘

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed 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 transport to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, together with other law practice, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration must 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.