Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal labor force decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic lawyers basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed 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 remain 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 said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats against the judiciary had actually gone up "tremendously."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reassess which scientific concerns need their input. It was among numerous concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with 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 told 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 acquainted with 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 space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's strategy, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has been in location in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, but proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with new indictment, is accused of 'required labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing 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 take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently hired employees are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of countless people ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, along with other law companies, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid professionals and grant receivers 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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling 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 help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.