A federal judge ruled Thursday that mass firings of federal workers still in their probationary period at six agencies couldn’t proceed.In issuing a preliminary injunction, Judge Wiliam Alsup in Northern California district court required the administration to reinstate workers already dismissed at the Agriculture,

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge repeatedly sounded skeptical on Wednesday that the Trump administration’s mass firings of probationary federal workers were made by the government because the employees couldn’t do their jobs, saying the terminations appeared to be part of a larger goal.