Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an unspecified variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of recent hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that present and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce reductions overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed claims 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 increasing and attorneys need to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said risks against the judiciary had actually increased "tremendously."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reevaluate which scientific problems need their input. It was one of several problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with 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 told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daytime saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has remained in place in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing 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 pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of countless individuals need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that 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 recent weeks.

Trump administration need to make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit 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 a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.