| A federal judge will order an immediate halt to key aspects of President Donald Trump's effort to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, blocking Secretary of State Marco Rubio from placing 2,200 employees of the agency on leave in a matter of hours. "They should not put those 2,200 people on administrative leave," U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, told Trump administration attorneys at an emergency hearing Friday. The judge indicated he would formalize his decision later in the evening. It's an immediate brushback to the demolition of USAID, the government agency responsible for billions of dollars in international aid programs. Elon Musk spearheaded the bid to dismantle the agency at breakneck speed in recent days, and earlier Friday, Trump called for the agency to be closed down. Read the latest
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