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<br>Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.<br>
<br>US to utilize AI to withdraw visas of students it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports<br>
<br>The U.S. State Department will use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has actually promised to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing for months in the middle of Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.<br>
<br>CIA fires an unspecified variety of brand-new officers<br>
<br>The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of current hires this week, three individuals knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that current and previous U.S. intelligence officers alerted would risk damaging U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands massive federal workforce decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).<br>
<br>Veterans, farm groups slam Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall<br>
<br>Arizona farm groups and veterans brought together by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking 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 country’s 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have submitted 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.<br>
<br>’We’re in a dark space,’ US judge says on increasing dangers<br>
<br>Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys need to do more to push back versus heated rhetoric, four 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 dangers against the judiciary had actually increased “significantly.”<br>
<br>Trump’s FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine consultants in protected Senate appearance<br>
<br>Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers but said he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was one of a number of 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 2 hours.<br>
<br>Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of staff cuts<br>
<br>U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say on staffing and policy at their agencies, 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 stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.<br>
<br>Push for irreversible US daylight saving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided<br>
<br>A three-year congressional effort to make daytime conserving time long-term in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to make the many of the longer evenings – has remained in location in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but supporters have pushed to make it year-round.<br>
<br>Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs deals with brand-new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor'<br>
<br>U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.<br>
<br>US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action problems<br>
<br>U.S. federal government workers who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of countless people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, along with other law office, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.<br>
<br>Trump administration must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge rules<br>
<br>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 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 lawsuit by contractors and non-profit grant recipients 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 buys the federal government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.<br>
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