Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen university student 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 variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, three people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal labor force reductions managed 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 attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have actually filed claims to ask judges to obstruct 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 area,' US judge says on increasing threats

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers must do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel conversation 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 risks against the judiciary had actually increased "exponentially."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in protected 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 but stated he would reassess which clinical issues need 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 dealing with the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told 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 only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Promote long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has actually remained in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with new indictment, is implicated of 'required labor'

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees 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 recently hired employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of countless people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, together with other law practice, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

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 deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by contractors 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 orders the federal government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.