Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests 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 variety of recent hires this week, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that existing and previous 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 commands massive federal workforce reductions supervised 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 brought together by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, 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 monetary assistance.

'We remain in a dark space,' US judge states on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys need to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards against the judiciary had actually increased "significantly."

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would reevaluate which clinical concerns require their input. It was one of 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 tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Promote permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says are divided

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

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 transportation to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law office, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors 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 purchases the government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.