Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amid Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal labor force decreases overseen 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 united by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed suits to ask judges to obstruct 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 space,' US judge states on rising threats

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated risks versus the judiciary had increased "greatly."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in safeguarded 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 consultants however said he would review which scientific concerns require their input. It was one of numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with 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 say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Promote irreversible US daylight conserving 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 actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights - has been in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing 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 plan. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees struck back at Trump mass firings with class action grievances

U.S. federal government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently hired workers are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are illegal and tens of countless people need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms 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 firms, plan 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 should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help 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 avoid 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 recipients challenging President Donald Trump's extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.