Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.
US to use AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans 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 took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal workforce decreases supervised 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 attorney generals of the United States lashed out at 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 often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually 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 area,' US judge states on increasing dangers
Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion 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 stated risks versus the judiciary had gone up "tremendously."
Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in guarded Senate appearance
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however stated he would reevaluate which scientific issues need their input. It was among a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.
Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel cuts
U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say 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 advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's strategy, the source stated.
Push for permanent US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daytime 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 saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights - has actually been in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have pushed to make it year-round.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces new indictment, is accused of 'required labor'
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.
US federal workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints
U.S. government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are illegal and 10s of thousands of people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, along with other law firms, 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 should 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 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 lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.
