Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views 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 fight antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, three individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted 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 presides over huge federal labor force decreases supervised 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 brought together by Democratic attorneys general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted suits 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 states on rising dangers

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated 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 dangers versus the judiciary had gone up "greatly."

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

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would reassess which clinical concerns need their input. It was one of several issues 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 2 hours.

Trump informs 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 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 said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Promote irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, but proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish 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 transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are responding with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law companies, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help professionals 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 demand to prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by contractors and non-profit grant recipients 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 buys the federal government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.