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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 use expert system to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters 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 university student and others who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been continuous for months amid Israel’s military assault on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an unspecified number of brand-new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, three people knowledgeable about the matter stated, cuts that existing 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 enormous federal labor force reductions overseen 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 combined by Democratic attorneys general blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the nation’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, who have 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 area,’ US judge says on increasing hazards

Threats against U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers should do more to push back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel conversation on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical criminal offense in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards against the judiciary had gone up « tremendously. »

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in guarded Senate look

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump’s candidate to run the U.S. FDA, told legislators on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine advisers however stated he would review which clinical issues need their input. It was one of numerous issues on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards near his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump informs cabinet 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 knowledgeable about 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 told the cabinet he was good with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daytime saving time long-term in the United States appears to have stopped, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the issue. Daylight conserving time – putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to maximize the longer nights – has actually remained in place in almost all of the United States given that the 1960s, however advocates have pushed 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 magnate of forcing staff members to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. 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 not guilty.

US federal employees struck back at Trump mass shootings with class action grievances

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of just recently employed workers are reacting with class action-style problems claiming that the mass shootings are illegal and 10s of countless people ought to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms said on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board because last week and, along with other law office, plan to bring about 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 rules

The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign aid 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 request to avoid a due date for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by contractors and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s extensive freeze of U.S. foreign aid, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It buys the government to pay invoices submitted by the complainants in the event before February 13.