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US to use AI to revoke visas of students it views as Hamas fans, Axios reports

The U.S. State Department will utilize synthetic intelligence to revoke visas of foreign trainees who it views as supporters of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, citing senior State Department authorities. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January to fight antisemitism and has vowed to deport non-citizen university student and others who participated in pro-Palestinian protests that have actually been continuous for months amid Israel's military assault on Gaza after Hamas' October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an number of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a multitude of current hires today, three individuals acquainted with the matter said, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers alerted 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 enormous federal workforce reductions 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 brought together by Democratic attorneys general lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who blocked his executive orders and harming 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 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 support.

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

Threats versus U.S. judges are increasing and lawyers need to do more to push back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion 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 stated dangers against the judiciary had actually gone up "exponentially."

Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine consultants in protected 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 advisers however stated he would review which clinical problems need their input. It was among numerous concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins physician, kept his cards close 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 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 acquainted with the matter. The billionaire Tesla CEO and his Department of Government Efficiency will play an advisory function just, Trump said, according to the source. Musk remained in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump's plan, the source stated.

Push for long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided

A three-year congressional effort to make daylight saving time irreversible 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 summertime half of the year to take advantage of the longer evenings - has been in place in almost all of the United States since the 1960s, however proponents have pushed to make it year-round.

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

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of forcing employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not help in his two-decade sex trafficking plan. Combs, 55, still deals with a scheduled May 5 trial in Manhattan on federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.

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

U.S. civil servant who have been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently hired employees are responding with class action-style complaints declaring that the mass firings are prohibited and tens of countless individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at 2 companies stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board since last week and, along with 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 rules

The Trump administration need to make some payments to foreign aid 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 judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a claim by specialists and non-profit grant receivers 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 purchases the government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the event before February 13.