Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters 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 promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have 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 multitude of current hires today, three people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal workforce decreases overseen 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 united by Democratic lawyers general 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 a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually 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 remain in a dark area,' US judge states on increasing risks

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had gone up "exponentially."

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

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 stated he would reassess which scientific problems need their input. It was one of several 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 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 role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has been in place in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, but proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, in addition to other law office, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers 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 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 request to avoid a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit 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 an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.