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Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as advocates 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 pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months amidst Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over massive federal labor force reductions 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, 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 monetary assistance.

'We remain in a dark area,' US judge says on rising hazards

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

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but said he would review which scientific problems need their input. It was among several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with 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 informed 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 knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's plan, the source said.

Push for long-term US daylight saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has actually been in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but proponents have actually 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 workers to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still faces a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of countless individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, along with other law companies, 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 must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid professionals 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 to prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It buys the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.