Following is a summary of current 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 use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months in the middle of Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of recent hires today, 3 people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-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 attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic attorneys general, who have filed 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 support.

'We're in a dark area,' US judge states on rising hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and legal representatives must do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had actually gone up "tremendously."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants but stated he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was among several issues 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 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 firms, according to a source familiar with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's strategy, the source stated.

Push for long-term 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 actually stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer season half of the year to make the most of the longer evenings - has actually remained in location in almost all of the United States because the 1960s, but advocates have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of forcing employees 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 transport to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently hired employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are illegal and 10s of thousands of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, along with other law firms, 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 must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules

The Trump administration should 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 demand to prevent a due date for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by contractors 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 orders the government to pay invoices sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.