Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of 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 variety of recent hires today, three people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal workforce reductions 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 attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually submitted suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial assistance.

'We remain in a dark area,' US judge states on increasing hazards

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

nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would review which scientific problems need their input. It was among several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff 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 firms, 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 stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump's plan, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer nights - has remained in location in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, but advocates have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of countless individuals must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law office, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 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 professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.