Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views 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 college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of 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 multitude of recent hires this week, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force 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 brought together by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized 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 backing.

'We're in a dark space,' US judge states on increasing dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated 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 against the judiciary had actually increased "exponentially."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would reassess which scientific issues require their input. It was one of a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to 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 final say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to maximize the longer nights - has actually been in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 shootings with class action problems

U.S. federal government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired employees are responding with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of countless individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, in addition to other law companies, strategy 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 should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

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 avoid a due date 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 recipients challenging President Donald Trump's extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.