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Following is a summary of current 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 use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates 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 promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amidst Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce decreases overseen 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 attorneys general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually submitted 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 says on increasing risks

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats versus the judiciary had increased "significantly."

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

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

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

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was good with Trump's plan, the source said.

Promote permanent US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent 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 throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights - has been in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but supporters 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 brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

US federal employees hit back at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently hired employees are with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of countless individuals ought to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, together with other law practice, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.