A federal judge ... pause the Trump administration's plan to place thousands of workers at the U.S. Agency for International Development on administrative leave. About 2,200 USAID employees ...

U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, who was nominated by Trump, sided with two federal employee associations in agreeing to a pause in plans to put 2,200 employees on paid leave as of midnight Friday.

A federal court has issued a "very limited" temporary order halting President Donald Trump's plan to gut the United States ...