Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel's military assault 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 people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct 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 area,' US judge states on increasing dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks against the judiciary had actually gone up "tremendously."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reevaluate which scientific issues need their input. It was one of numerous 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 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel 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 companies, 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 remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Promote permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to make the many of the longer nights - has actually remained in place in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, however supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help 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 transport to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers struck back at Trump mass shootings with grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently hired employees are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with 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 current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 demand to avoid a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.