Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will utilize artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans 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 actually promised to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amid 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 variety of recent hires today, three people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk destructive U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force reductions supervised 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 united by Democratic attorneys basic lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary assistance.

'We're in a dark space,' US judge says on rising threats

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys need to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated risks against the judiciary had actually increased "greatly."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors but stated he would reevaluate which scientific issues require their input. It was among a number of concerns 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 two hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel 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 advisory function only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has actually remained in place in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, but supporters have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and 10s of thousands of individuals must get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, in addition to other law office, plan to bring about 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 must make some payments to foreign aid contractors 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.