Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, three people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal workforce decreases supervised 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 combined by Democratic lawyers general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have actually 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 financial backing.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys must do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had actually gone up "greatly."

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was one of numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 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 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 said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A effort to make daylight conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has been in place in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, but advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help 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 transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. government workers who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently employed employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, together with other law companies, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid professionals and grant receivers 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 completion of a hearing in a claim by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive 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 invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.