The agencies include the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury.

A federal judge on Thursday night ordered President Donald Trump to temporarily reinstate thousands of probationary employees, dealing another blow to his effort to reshape and downsize the federal government.

Judge William Alsup directed the Trump administration to extend the offer to probationary workers fired last month across several agencies.

Maine is joining nearly half the country in suing the Trump administration over Education Department layoffs. The department announced plans Tuesday to cut nearly half of its workforce, which is about 1,300 workers. The Education Department says the cuts are about "efficiency" and "accountability.” The layoffs take effect in 90 days.

A US judge ordered the Trump administration to undo some of its cuts to billions of dollars in foreign assistance programs through the US Agency for International Development, the latest turn in a legal fight that’s likely to end up at the US Supreme Court.

Judge Beryl Howell is now presiding over an emergency lawsuit surrounding President Donald Trump's order to review any current contracts that law group Perkins Coie has with federal agencies and consider terminating them.

A federal judge entered an emergency order barring the Trump administration from implementing parts of its executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie.