Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amidst 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 slew of current hires today, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal workforce decreases overseen by 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed lawsuits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

'We're in a dark space,' US judge states on increasing threats

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys need 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 conference on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated hazards versus the judiciary had actually gone up "significantly."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs role 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 assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reevaluate which clinical problems require their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near 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 personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their agencies, 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 stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights - has been in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is implicated of 'forced labor'

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass firings with class action problems

U.S. government workers 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 illegal and tens of countless individuals need to 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 because recently and, along with other law firms, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration should 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 request to prevent a due date for the payments. The judgment 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 extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.