Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

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

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

CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires today, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge 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 town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic lawyers basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have actually 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're in a dark space,' US judge says on rising hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives should do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion 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 said hazards against the judiciary had actually increased "significantly."

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would review which clinical issues need their input. It was among several issues 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 two 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 agencies, 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 stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's plan, the source said.

Promote long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the one hour during the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has remained in location in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, but advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees hit back 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 employed employees are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of people should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, together with other law office, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.