Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.
US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce reductions managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall
Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorney of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have submitted 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're in a dark area,' US judge states on increasing hazards
Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated risks against the judiciary had actually increased "significantly."
Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in safeguarded Senate look
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would review which clinical concerns require their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.
Trump informs 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 say on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's strategy, the source said.
Promote permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to make the many of the longer evenings - has remained in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces brand-new indictment, is accused of 'required labor'
U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.
US federal employees struck back at Trump mass firings with class action complaints
U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, along with other law office, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.
Trump administration must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines
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 avoid a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.