Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as advocates 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 vowed to deport non-citizen university student 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 unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, three people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous 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 town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have filed lawsuits 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 remain in a dark area,' US judge says on rising dangers

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

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reassess which clinical issues need their input. It was among 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 personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source familiar with 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 was in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Push for 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 halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights - has been in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate 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 participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. federal government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, in addition to other law office, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign help 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 due date 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 recipients 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 invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.