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 utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college trainees 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 new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, three individuals familiar with the matter said, cuts that present and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk damaging U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive federal labor force reductions managed by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

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 disregarding judges who obstructed his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an in some cases raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the nation's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually filed claims 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 attorneys should do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had gone up "significantly."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in guarded 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 however said he would review which clinical problems need 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 informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their agencies, according to a source acquainted with 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 was in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's strategy, the source said.

Promote irreversible US daytime saving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving time permanent in the United States appears to have halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has been in location in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but advocates have actually pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist 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 transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

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

U.S. government staff members who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently worked with workers are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are unlawful and tens of thousands of people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had actually filed six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law office, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis 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 should make some payments to foreign help 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 request 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 help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.