Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.
US to utilize AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months in the middle of Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack. external page
CIA fires an undefined variety of brand-new officers (Image: https://www.kelly.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/business-people-meeting-1.jpg)
The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, three individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would run the risk of damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over 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 (Image: https://sigmahr.in/images/sigma-jobseekers.jpg)
Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at 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 often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have actually 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 monetary assistance. (Image: https://i.roamcdn.net/kazi/ng/hq/48f1991ba4270d61d2b79d10a152c641/-/advertiser-img-ng-jobs-prod/dealer-images/advid299343/adv299343_1737474272.jpg)
'We remain in a dark area,' US judge states on rising dangers
Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives ought to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 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 stated threats against the judiciary had actually gone up „tremendously.“
Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate appearance
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would review which clinical concerns require their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours. external page
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 firms, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's plan, the source stated.
Promote irreversible US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has been in location in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but supporters have actually pushed to make it year-round.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is implicated of 'forced labor'
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean „Diddy“ Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 shootings with class action problems (Image: https://quasa.io/storage/images/news/D4wUMrRhM9jVaDhaLN3NVV4NvWWa6Hamn1rGR0vt.jpg)
U.S. federal government employees who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently employed employees are responding with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, along with other law office, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.
Trump administration should make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules
The Trump administration need to 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 request to a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit 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 a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.