Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans 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 actually pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing 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 multitude of recent hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over enormous federal workforce reductions managed 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 attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was overlooking judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted claims to ask judges to block 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 need to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats versus the judiciary had actually increased "greatly."

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers but stated he would reassess which scientific concerns require their input. It was one of a number of 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 two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge 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 agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly 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 remained in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate 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 transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass firings with class action problems

U.S. government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently worked with employees are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, along with other law companies, strategy to bring about 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 aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should 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 request to prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling 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 wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.