Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has vowed to university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months in the middle of Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, three individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force decreases managed 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 combined by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic lawyers general, 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 monetary assistance.

'We're in a dark area,' US judge states on rising hazards

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

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would reassess which clinical problems require their input. It was among numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with 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 told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Promote permanent US daytime 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 stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights - has remained in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but advocates have pressed 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 brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help 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 engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers countered 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 employees are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, together with other law office, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 request to prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant receivers 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 invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.