Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans 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 vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amid 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 multitude of current hires this week, 3 people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal labor force reductions supervised 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 chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually filed 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 area,' US judge states on increasing dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers must do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers versus the judiciary had increased "tremendously."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reevaluate which clinical issues require their input. It was among several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells 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 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 stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source said.

Push for long-term US daytime 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 actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has been in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, however advocates have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating 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 scheme. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to take part in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees 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 recently worked with workers are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of countless individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems because last week and, together with other law firms, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must 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 request to avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.