Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans 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 pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce decreases overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic lawyers general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually 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 assistance.

'We remain in a dark area,' US judge states on increasing threats

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives must do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats versus the judiciary had actually gone up "exponentially."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would reevaluate which clinical issues require their input. It was among several problems 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 two hours.

Trump informs 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 final say on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source acquainted with 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 space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daylight saving 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 evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to make the many of the longer nights - has been in location in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help 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 deadline 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 wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.