Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter said, 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 workforce reductions supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic chief law officers, 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're in a dark area,' US judge says on increasing risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards against the judiciary had actually increased "exponentially."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors however said he would reevaluate which clinical issues need their input. It was one of several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, 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, are in charge of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Push for irreversible US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to make the most of the longer nights - has actually been in place in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, however proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing 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 transportation to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are illegal and 10s of countless individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law firms, strategy to produce 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 help 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 avoid a deadline 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 comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.