WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday intensified its sweeping efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce, the nation’s largest employer, by ordering agencies to lay off nearly all probationary employees who had not yet gained civil service protection — potentially affecting hundreds of thousands of workers.

(Reuters) - Some 2,300 people have been laid off at the U.S. Interior Department as part of the Trump administration's sweeping government job cuts, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

A federal judge on Friday ordered a temporary halt to the Trump administration’s attempts to slash jobs and dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The order, from a U.S. district judge in Washington,

President Trump met with Indian leader Narendra Modi, who has praised him in hopes of avoiding tariffs the administration slapped on other countries.

President Donald Trump meets Thursday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has heaped praise on him and is hoping to avoid the tariffs Trump has ordered for imports from other countries