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Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months in the middle of Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, 3 individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal workforce reductions supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam 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 overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have submitted suits 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 space,' US judge says on rising threats

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a 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 dangers versus the judiciary had increased "greatly."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but said he would reassess which scientific issues require their input. It was one of several concerns 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 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff 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 agencies, 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 told the cabinet he was great with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states 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 uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to make the many of the longer nights - has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with 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 employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, in addition to other law office, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help contractors and grant receivers 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 the end of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.