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Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal workforce reductions managed 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorneys basic, 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 space,' US judge states on increasing risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives must do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated risks versus the judiciary had actually increased "exponentially."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however stated he would reevaluate which clinical concerns require their input. It was among numerous problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, 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 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 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 stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, 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 long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, 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 make the most of the longer nights - has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, but proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently employed workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week 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 help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid contractors 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 ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by specialists 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 event before February 13.