Following is a summary of existing US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views 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 vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers cautioned 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 administers over huge federal labor force decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging former service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed suits 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 remain in a dark area,' US judge says on increasing hazards

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 conversation 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 stated dangers against the judiciary had actually increased "significantly."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in protected Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however stated he would review which scientific issues require their input. It was one of several issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise 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 firms, 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 remained in the room and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly 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 since the 1960s, however proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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 just recently employed workers are responding with class action-style problems claiming that the mass firings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, along with other law practice, strategy to bring about 15 more on an on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration must 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 demand to prevent a deadline 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 recipients 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 buys the government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.