Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of trainees it sees as Hamas fans, Axios reports

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

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, 3 individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of destructive U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over enormous federal workforce 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 combined by Democratic attorneys basic blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted lawsuits to ask judges to obstruct a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in grants, loans and financial backing.

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

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion 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 dangers against the judiciary had actually increased "exponentially."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in protected 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 advisers however stated he would reevaluate which clinical issues need their input. It was one of a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

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

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

Promote permanent US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says 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 equally divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer nights - has remained in place in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, but proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is implicated of 'required labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help 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 take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently employed workers are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of people should get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, together with other law office, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 completion of a hearing in a claim by professionals and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's extensive 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 sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.