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Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.
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US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing 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 students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force decreases 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 attorney generals of the United States blasted 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 an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have 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 monetary assistance.

'We remain in a dark area,' US judge states on rising risks

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said 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 stated dangers against the judiciary had gone up "exponentially."

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, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would review which scientific issues need their input. It was among a number of issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise 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 agencies, 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 excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Push for irreversible US daytime 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 actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights - has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces brand-new indictment, is accused of 'required labor'

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal workers 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 just recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, along with other law companies, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.
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Trump administration should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid contractors and grant recipients by 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) on Monday, a 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 suit by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's extensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.