Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amidst 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 multitude of recent hires this week, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned 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 presides 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 attorneys general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have actually 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 remain in a dark space,' US judge says on increasing dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys need to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards against the judiciary had actually gone up "significantly."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would review which scientific concerns require their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told 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 function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Promote irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states 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 uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is implicated of 'forced labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring 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 faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action problems

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently employed workers are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of thousands of people should 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 considering that last week and, in addition to other law practice, plan to bring about 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 rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 suit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers 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 buys the government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.