Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months amid Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal workforce decreases 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 united by Democratic attorneys general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorneys basic, 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 space,' US judge says on increasing hazards

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys need to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation 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 stated risks versus the judiciary had gone up "tremendously."

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however said he would reassess which scientific concerns need their input. It was among several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final 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 role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to make the most of the longer nights - has actually remained in place in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, however advocates 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 versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees 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 engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded innocent.

US federal workers hit back at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of countless people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, along with other law firms, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help 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 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 professionals and non-profit grant receivers 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 government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.