Following is a summary of current 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 revoke visas of foreign trainees 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 fight antisemitism and has actually pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations 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 current hires today, three people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge 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 town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorneys general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have actually filed suits to ask judges to obstruct 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 increasing hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys need to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated 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 against the judiciary had increased "significantly."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors 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 advisers however said he would review which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of a number of 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 2 hours.

Trump informs 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 final say on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's plan, the source said.

Promote long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

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

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 innocent.

US federal employees struck back at Trump mass firings with class action problems

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently employed workers are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of countless individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, together with other law companies, plan to produce 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 rules

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 request to avoid 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 professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.