Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence 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 combat antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amid Israel's attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, three individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force 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 combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have 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 monetary support.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion 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 "tremendously."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers 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 a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while facing 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 informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final 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 only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Promote permanent US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with new indictment, is accused of 'forced labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 transportation to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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 just recently employed workers are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, in addition to other law office, 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 help professionals 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit 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 sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.