Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months amidst Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, three individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous 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 city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic lawyers basic lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have submitted claims 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're in a dark space,' US judge states on increasing threats

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys need to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated dangers versus the judiciary had actually gone up "exponentially."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reassess which scientific concerns need their input. It was among a number of problems 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 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 familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights - has been in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with new indictment, is implicated of 'forced labor'

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday a brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 employees struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of countless individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law practice, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's wide-ranging 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 billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.