Following is a summary of present US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system 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 actually vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amidst Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires today, 3 individuals knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned 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 commands huge federal labor force reductions 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 brought together by Democratic chief law officers blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have actually filed suits to ask judges to block a string of Trump executive orders, including his suspension of trillions of dollars in federal grants, loans and monetary support.

'We remain in a dark space,' US judge says on increasing threats

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers must do more to press back against 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 stated risks against the judiciary had actually increased "tremendously."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in protected Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reevaluate which clinical problems require their input. It was among several 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, are in charge of personnel 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 companies, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

Promote long-term US daylight 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 halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has remained in place in nearly all of the United States given that the 1960s, but 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 brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. 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 actually pleaded innocent.

US federal employees hit back at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently employed employees are responding with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are illegal and tens of thousands of individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at two 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 companies, strategy to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers 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 help 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by professionals and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump's comprehensive freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the federal government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.