Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.
US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates 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 vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations 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 variety of new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, three people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive 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 chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic attorneys general, 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 backing.
'We're in a dark space,' US judge states on rising hazards
Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had actually increased "greatly."
Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in secured Senate appearance
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however said he would review which clinical problems require their input. It was one of several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, 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 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 agencies, 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 remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.
Promote permanent US daytime saving 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 actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has been in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but 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, 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 deals with 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 not guilty.
US federal workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints
U.S. 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 illegal and 10s of countless individuals ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, in addition to other law practice, 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 need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines
The Trump administration must 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 avoid a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant recipients 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 orders the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.
