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Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amid Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force decreases overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorneys basic lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually 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 monetary assistance.

'We remain in a dark area,' US judge says on increasing risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats versus the judiciary had actually gone up "greatly."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate look

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

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel cuts

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

Push for permanent US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States appears to have stopped, 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 been in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, but advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with new indictment, is implicated of 'forced labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. government workers who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, along with other law practice, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration should 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 administration's demand to prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling 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 help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.