Following is a of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amidst Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires today, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous 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 city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have 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 backing.

'We're in a dark space,' US judge says on rising dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers against the judiciary had actually increased "tremendously."

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would review which scientific problems need their input. It was among several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to 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 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 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 was in the room and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to make the many of the longer nights - has actually been in place in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring 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 faces 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 not guilty.

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

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently employed workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, together with other law firms, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to 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 deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.