Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

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

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that present 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 brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal workforce reductions supervised 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic lawyers general, who have actually 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 support.

'We remain in a dark space,' US judge states on increasing dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys 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 crime 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 advisors in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reevaluate which scientific issues need their input. It was one of several problems 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 two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say 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 role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's strategy, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has actually been in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 transport to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers 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 employed employees are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are illegal and tens of countless individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, in addition to other law firms, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment 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 of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.