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Following is a summary of existing 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 expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans 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 actually pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amid Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires this week, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal workforce decreases managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

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 disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic lawyers basic, 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 backing.

'We remain in a dark space,' US judge says on increasing hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion 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 threats versus the judiciary had gone up "greatly."

candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would review which clinical issues need their input. It was among several concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close 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, are in charge of personnel 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 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 good with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Promote long-term US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to make the many of the longer nights - has been in place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and 10s of countless individuals need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, along with other law office, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help 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 demand to prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, 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 event before February 13.