Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing 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 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 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually submitted lawsuits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and financial backing.

'We remain in a dark area,' US judge says on rising hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers ought 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 meeting on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats versus the judiciary had actually gone up "greatly."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would review which scientific concerns require their input. It was among a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells 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 word on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source familiar 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 remained in the space and told the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says 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 uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has remained in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against 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 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 workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, in addition to other law practice, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration should 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 professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.