Reuters United States Domestic News Summary
Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.
US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months in the middle of Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal 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 combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have 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 assistance.
‘We remain in a dark space,’ US judge states on increasing risks
Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives need to do more to push 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 said dangers versus the judiciary had actually increased « greatly. »
Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in protected Senate appearance
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reevaluate which clinical problems require their input. It was among a number of issues 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 2 hours.
Trump tells 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 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 just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump’s strategy, the source said.
Push for long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings – has remained in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have pressed to make it year-round.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new indictment, is accused of ‘required labor’
U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean « Diddy » Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.
US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints
U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of countless people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, together with other law office, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.
Trump administration should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules
The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.
