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Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

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

The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as advocates 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 actually pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing 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 slew of current hires this week, 3 individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of damaging U.S. nationwide security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump administers over huge federal workforce decreases managed 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 general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have 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're in a dark space,' 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 said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on clerical criminal offense 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 advisers in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reassess which scientific problems need their input. It was one of numerous 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 2 hours.

Trump tells 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 final say 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 said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to make the many of the longer nights - has actually been in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, however supporters have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing 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 deals with 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 not guilty.

US federal employees struck back at Trump mass firings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently hired employees are reacting with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of countless individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, together with other law office, plan 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 should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment 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 aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.