Reuters US Domestic News Summary
Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.
US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. 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 participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amidst Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, three people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s 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 city center
Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed lawsuits 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 space,’ US judge states on rising hazards
Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats versus the judiciary had actually gone up “tremendously.”
Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in secured Senate appearance
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reassess which scientific problems require their input. It was one of a number of problems 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 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 familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s strategy, the source said.
Promote long-term US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has remained in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however advocates have pushed to make it year-round.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with new indictment, is accused of ‘forced labor’
U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.
US federal workers countered at shootings with class action complaints
U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law practice, 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 need to make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules
The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid contractors 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.