Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.
US to use AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.
CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal workforce decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of (DOGE).
Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center
Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic attorneys basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging 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 block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial support.
'We're in a dark space,' US judge states on increasing hazards
Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers must do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards versus the judiciary had gone up "exponentially."
Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in protected Senate appearance
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would review which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.
Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel cuts
U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 was in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.
Push for irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights - has actually remained in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces brand-new indictment, is accused of 'required labor'
U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help 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 transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.
US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances
U.S. government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of countless people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, in addition to other law practice, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large 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 need to make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive 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 sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.
