Following is a summary of current US domestic news briefs.

US to utilize AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas advocates, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests 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 this week, 3 people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over massive federal labor force decreases overseen by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Veterans, farm groups knock Trump cuts at Democrat-run Arizona town hall

Arizona farm groups and veterans united by Democratic chief law officers lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and hurting previous service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic attorney generals of the United States, who have actually submitted claims 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're in a dark space,' US judge states on increasing risks

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

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in secured Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reassess which clinical problems require their input. It was among a number of 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 informs 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 final say on staffing and policy at their firms, according to a source acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory role only, Trump stated, according to the source. Musk was in the room and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's strategy, the source said.

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

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are equally divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summer half of the year to maximize the longer evenings - has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States because the 1960s, but proponents have actually pressed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a brand-new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop mogul of requiring 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 faces 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 not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of thousands of people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law companies, strategy to cause 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in recent weeks.

Trump administration should make some foreign help payments by Monday, judge guidelines

The Trump administration should 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 demand to avoid 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 professionals 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 orders the government to pay billings submitted by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.