Following is a summary of present 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 synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it perceives as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has promised to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests that have been continuous for months amidst Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, three people knowledgeable about the matter said, cuts that current and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force decreases managed 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 united by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic chief law officers, 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 financial backing.

'We remain in a dark space,' US judge says on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and attorneys need to do more to press back versus heated rhetoric, four federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association meeting on white collar criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had increased "tremendously."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisors however said he would reevaluate which scientific issues require their input. It was one of numerous concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close to his chest while facing the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 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 acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk remained in the room and informed the cabinet he was good with Trump's plan, the source stated.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time permanent in the United States appears to have actually halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to take advantage of the longer nights - has remained in place in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, but advocates have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces new indictment, is accused of 'forced labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

US federal workers struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints

U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently employed workers are responding with class action-style complaints claiming that the mass shootings are prohibited and tens of countless people must get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, in addition to other law office, plan to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign help professionals and grant recipients 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 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 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 invoices sent by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.