Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize 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 actually vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have 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 brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal workforce reductions supervised 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have submitted 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 rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers ought to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats versus the judiciary had actually gone up "exponentially."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reevaluate which scientific concerns require their input. It was among numerous 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 two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff 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 knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Promote permanent US daylight conserving 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 evenly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has remained in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces new indictment, is implicated of 'required labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law practice, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, 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 case before February 13.