Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as supporters 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 pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amid Israel's military on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal labor force 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 brought together by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation'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 says on increasing threats

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

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers 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 advisers however said he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was among a number of issues 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 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed 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 acquainted 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 was in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

Promote irreversible US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to make the many of the longer evenings - has been in location in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however 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 brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant 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 illegal and 10s of countless people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid specialists 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 due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.