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US to use AI to revoke visas of trainees it sees as Hamas supporters, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to withdraw visas of foreign students who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has pledged to deport non-citizen college trainees and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amidst Israel's military attack on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a slew of recent hires today, three people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that current and former 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 presides over huge federal labor force reductions supervised 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 lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was neglecting judges who blocked his executive orders and damaging previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic attorney of the United States, who have filed lawsuits 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 space,' US judge says on increasing dangers

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and legal representatives ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges stated in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on white collar crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said threats against the judiciary had gone up "significantly."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisers in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed legislators on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reassess which clinical concerns need their input. It was among a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, 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, are in charge of staff cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last say 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 just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was great 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 halted, with President Donald Trump stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has actually remained 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 new indictment, is accused of 'required labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize 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 participate in prostitution. He has pleaded innocent.

US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of recently worked with employees are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of countless people must get their tasks back. Lawyers at two companies stated on Thursday that they had submitted six appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since recently and, in addition to other law practice, strategy to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of employees who were fired in recent weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign aid 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 prevent a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit 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 a boost from the Supreme Court. It orders the government to pay invoices submitted by the plaintiffs in the event before February 13.