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 supporters, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months in the middle of Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.
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CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal workforce decreases managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Veterans, farm groups cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall
Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually 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.
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'We're in a dark area,' US judge says on increasing threats
Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys must do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats against the judiciary had gone up "exponentially."
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Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in secured Senate look
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Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would review which clinical issues need their input. It was among a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with 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 informed 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 said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump's strategy, the source stated.
Push for permanent US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer nights - has actually remained in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have pressed to make it year-round.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces brand-new indictment, is implicated of 'forced labor'
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers 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 take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.
US federal workers struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances
U.S. federal government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 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, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.
Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules
The Trump administration must 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.