Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department . President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amid Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive 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 town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have filed suits 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're in a dark space,' US judge states on increasing hazards

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

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in secured Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers however stated he would review which scientific issues require 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 tells 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 firms, according to a source familiar with 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 remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was great with Trump's plan, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has actually remained in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, but proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a 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 help in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of countless people ought 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 given that recently and, together with other law office, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help 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 demand to avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by professionals and non-profit grant receivers 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 buys the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.