Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives 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 combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amidst Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires today, 3 individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. 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 labor force 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 combined 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 harming previous service members. They spoke at an often 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 backing.

'We remain in a dark space,' US judge states on rising dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys should do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four 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 said risks versus the judiciary had actually increased "tremendously."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would reassess which scientific problems require their input. It was among a number of issues 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 2 hours.

Trump informs 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 last word on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Promote permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has actually been in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of thousands of people need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end 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 a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.