| A federal judge said he will pause a midnight deadline for the U.S. Agency for International Development to be stripped down to a few hundred workers from a workforce of thousands. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols made the announcement from the bench after a hearing at a courthouse in Washington, D.C., a day after two labor groups sued the Trump administration after it said thousands of USAID employees would be placed on administrative leave starting at 11:59 p.m. ET Friday. | 