The Trump administration has sought special dispensation to imminently cut staff at State, but employees won a—potentially short-lived—reprieve.

A federal judge in California on Friday temporarily blocked the U.S. State Department from implementing an agency-wide reorganization plan that includes nearly 2,000 layoffs. U.S. District Judge Susan

A federal judge has temporarily halted the U.S. State Departments plan to lay off nearly 2,000 employees as part of a sweeping reorganization. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ruled from San Francisco on Friday that