US to use AI to withdraw visas of students it views as Hamas supporters, Axios reports
The U.S. State Department will use artificial intelligence to revoke visas of foreign students who it views as advocates of Palestinian Hamas militants, Axios reported on Thursday, mentioning senior State Department officials. 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 participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have actually been ongoing 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 variety of recent hires today, 3 individuals familiar with the matter stated, cuts that existing and former U.S. intelligence officers cautioned would risk harmful U.S. nationwide security. The shootings under U.S. President Donald Trump's brand-new CIA director, John Ratcliffe, come as Trump presides over huge federal labor force decreases managed 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 brought together by Democratic lawyers basic lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump's federal cuts, stating the president was overlooking judges who obstructed his executive orders and harming former service members. They spoke at an often raucous town hall on Wednesday night arranged by the country's 23 Democratic lawyers basic, 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 assistance.
'We remain in a dark area,' US judge says on increasing risks
Threats versus U.S. judges are rising and lawyers need to do more to press back against heated rhetoric, four federal judges stated in a panel discussion 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 stated risks versus the judiciary had actually increased "significantly."
Trump's FDA nominee tepidly backs function for vaccine advisers in protected Senate look
Martin Makary, President Donald Trump's candidate to run the U.S. FDA, informed lawmakers on Thursday he would assemble a committee of vaccine advisors however stated he would reassess which scientific issues need their input. It was one of several issues 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 informs cabinet secretaries they, not Musk, supervise of personnel cuts
U.S. President Donald Trump told his cabinet members on Thursday that they, not Elon Musk, have the last word on staffing and policy at their agencies, 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 stated, according to the source. Musk was in the space and told the cabinet he was great with Trump's plan, the source said.
Promote long-term US daytime conserving time frozen as Trump states Americans are divided
A three-year congressional effort to make daylight conserving 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 saving time - putting the clocks forward one hour during the summertime half of the year to make the many of the longer nights - has actually been in place in nearly all of the United States since the 1960s, but proponents have actually pushed to make it year-round.
Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces new indictment, is accused of 'forced labor'
U.S. prosecutors on Thursday unveiled a new indictment versus Sean "Diddy" Combs, implicating the hip-hop magnate of requiring staff members to work long hours and threatening to penalize those who did not assist 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 transportation to participate in prostitution. He has actually pleaded not guilty.
US federal workers countered at Trump mass shootings with class action complaints
U.S. civil servant who have actually been fired in the Trump administration's purge of just recently employed employees are reacting with class action-style problems declaring that the mass shootings are unlawful and tens of countless people need to get their jobs back. Lawyers at two firms stated on Thursday that they had actually filed 6 appeals with the federal Merit Systems Protection Board given that recently and, together with other law office, plan to bring about 15 more on an agency-by-agency basis on behalf of large groups of employees who were fired in current weeks.
Trump administration must make some foreign aid payments by Monday, judge guidelines
The Trump administration should make some payments to foreign help specialists 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 avoid a deadline for the payments. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Amir Ali came at completion of a hearing in a suit by professionals 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 buys the government to pay billings sent by the plaintiffs in the case before February 13.