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

The U.S. State Department will utilize expert system to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as fans 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 vowed to deport non-citizen college students and others who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have been ongoing for months amid Israel’s military attack on Gaza after Hamas’ October 2023 attack.

CIA fires an undefined variety of new officers

The Central Intelligence Agency fired a variety of current hires today, 3 people acquainted with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers warned would run the risk of destructive U.S. national security. The firings under U.S. President Donald Trump’s new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump commands huge federal labor force decreases supervised by billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

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

Arizona farm groups and veterans combined by Democratic attorney generals of the United States blasted U.S. President Donald Trump’s federal cuts, saying the president was ignoring judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming previous service members. They spoke at an often raucous city center on Wednesday night arranged by the country’s 23 Democratic chief law officers, 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 remain in a dark space,’ US judge says on rising risks

Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and attorneys ought to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, 4 federal judges said in a panel discussion on Thursday. Speaking at an American Bar Association conference on clerical crime in Miami, U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware of Las Vegas federal court said dangers versus the judiciary had actually gone up “greatly.”

Trump’s FDA nominee tepidly backs role for vaccine advisors in guarded 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 advisors however said he would reevaluate which scientific concerns need their input. It was among a number of concerns on which Makary, a Johns Hopkins doctor, kept his cards near to his chest while dealing with the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee for two hours.

Trump informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel cuts

U.S. President Donald Trump informed his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the final say on staffing and policy at their companies, 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 stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and informed the cabinet he was excellent with Trump’s plan, the source stated.

Push for permanent US daylight conserving 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 actually halted, with President Donald Trump saying on Thursday that Americans are uniformly divided over the concern. Daylight saving time – putting the clocks forward one hour throughout the summer season half of the year to maximize the longer evenings – has remained in place in almost all of the United States considering that the 1960s, but proponents have pressed to make it year-round.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new indictment, is implicated of ‘forced labor’

U.S. district attorneys on Thursday revealed a new indictment against Sean “Diddy” Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring employees to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme. 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 employees countered at Trump mass shootings with class action problems

U.S. federal government staff members who have been fired in the Trump administration’s purge of recently hired workers are reacting with class action-style grievances claiming that the mass firings are prohibited and 10s of thousands of individuals must get their tasks back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board considering that recently and, along with other law practice, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of big groups of workers who were fired in current weeks.

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

The Trump administration need to 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 prevent a deadline for the payments. The judgment by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a lawsuit by and non-profit grant recipients challenging President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging freeze of U.S. foreign help, a day after the groups got an increase from the Supreme Court. It purchases the government to pay billings sent by the complainants in the case before February 13.