Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to use AI to revoke visas of students 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 supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been ongoing for months amidst Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires this week, three people familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of harmful U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal workforce reductions supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona city center

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined 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 damaging former service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation's 23 Democratic lawyers basic, who have filed lawsuits 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 hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives ought to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court stated threats against the judiciary had gone up "tremendously."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however said he would reevaluate which clinical issues require their input. It was one of a number of problems on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while dealing with the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump tells 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 agencies, according to a source knowledgeable about 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 remained in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daytime conserving 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 actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights - has remained in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style grievances declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of countless individuals should get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 firms said on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that last week and, in addition to other law practice, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid professionals 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 prevent a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at the end of a hearing in a lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant receivers challenging President Donald Trump's wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.