Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as supporters 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 vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months in the middle of Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, three people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal labor force 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted claims 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're in a dark space,' US judge states on rising dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives ought 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 meeting on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had increased "exponentially."

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would review which clinical concerns require their input. It was among several issues 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 tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel 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 companies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, however proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is accused of 'required labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating 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 scheme. Combs, 55, still faces 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 Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently hired employees are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, together with other law firms, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid contractors 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 ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a in a suit by specialists 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 orders the government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.