Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views 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 vowed to deport non-citizen trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amid Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous 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 chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have actually submitted claims 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're in a dark area,' US judge states on increasing hazards

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

Trump's FDA candidate 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 stated he would review which scientific concerns require their input. It was one of numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two 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 knowledgeable about 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 room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, 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 summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights - has remained in location in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 transport to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, together with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers 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 government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.