Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.
US to utilize AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives 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 promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The shootings 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 slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall
Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed 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 area,' US judge states on rising risks
Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives must do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion 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 hazards versus the judiciary had actually increased "exponentially."
Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in safeguarded Senate look
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would reassess which scientific problems require their input. It was among numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.
Trump informs 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 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 said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's strategy, the source stated.
Push for permanent US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has actually been in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces new indictment, is accused of 'required labor'
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.
US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints
U.S. federal government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of countless individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, in addition to other law companies, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.
Trump administration should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules
The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 demand to prevent 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 professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.
