Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to revoke visas of foreign trainees 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 vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires this week, three people familiar with the matter stated, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal workforce reductions managed 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have submitted claims to ask judges to block 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 rising hazards

Threats against 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 said threats versus the judiciary had actually increased "significantly."

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, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would review which clinical concerns need their input. It was among a number of problems 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 staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time irreversible in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has remained in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however supporters have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring staff members 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 pleaded innocent.

US federal employees hit back at shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently hired employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of thousands of people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because recently and, in addition to other law practice, strategy 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 must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration need to 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 avoid a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a suit by specialists and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings submitted by the complainants in the case before February 13.