Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated 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 undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires today, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal labor force decreases managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

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 ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic chief law officers, 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 assistance.

'We're in a dark area,' US judge says on increasing risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats against the judiciary had actually gone up "significantly."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would review which scientific concerns need their input. It was one of numerous problems 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, supervise 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 companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Push for long-term US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to make the many of the longer nights - has remained in place in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing 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 plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently hired employees are responding with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, along with other law practice, strategy 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 help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help professionals and grant receivers by 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Monday, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, a day after the U.S. rebuffed the administration's demand to avoid a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.