Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. 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 participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months in the middle of Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires today, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal labor force decreases overseen 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 combined by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have actually submitted claims to ask judges to block 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 space,' US judge says on rising threats

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys must 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 white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks against the judiciary had gone up "exponentially."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in protected 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 advisers however stated he would review which scientific issues require their input. It was among 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 staff 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 function just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has been in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but supporters have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members 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 engage in . He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, along with other law office, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big 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 contractors 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 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 wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.