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US to use AI to withdraw visas of trainees it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to withdraw visas of foreign trainees who it views as fans of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, pointing out senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to combat antisemitism and has actually vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests 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 current hires today, three people acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and previous U.S. intelligence officers warned would risk harmful U.S. national security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands enormous federal workforce reductions supervised 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 combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was disregarding judges who blocked his executive orders and hurting former service members. They spoke at a sometimes raucous town hall on Wednesday night organized by the country's 23 Democratic attorneys basic, who have actually filed 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 support.

'We're in a dark area,' US judge says on increasing risks

Threats against U.S. judges are rising and lawyers 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 criminal activity in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said hazards versus the judiciary had actually increased "significantly."

Trump's FDA candidate tepidly backs function for vaccine advisors in safeguarded Senate appearance

Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would convene a committee of vaccine consultants however said he would reevaluate which scientific concerns require their input. It was among numerous concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near his chest while facing the Senate's Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for 2 hours.

Trump tells cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, are in charge of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word on staffing and policy at their companies, according to a source knowledgeable about the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an only, Trump said, according to the source. Musk was in the room and told the cabinet he was good with Trump's plan, the source said.

Promote long-term US daylight conserving time frozen as Trump says 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 stating on Thursday that Americans are evenly divided over the problem. Daylight conserving time - putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to make the most of the longer nights - has actually remained in location in nearly all of the United States considering that the 1960s, however advocates have actually pressed to make it year-round.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs deals with new indictment, is implicated of 'required labor'

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop mogul of forcing workers to work long hours and threatening to punish those who did not help 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 transportation to take part in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

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

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 countless people need to get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies said on Thursday that they had submitted 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that last week and, along with other law practice, plan to produce 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration must make some payments to foreign help contractors 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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The ruling 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 orders the government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.