President Donald Trump took his most consequential action against federal employee unions yet late Thursday, signing an executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining for government employees whose work include national security aspects.

President Donald Trump is ending collective bargaining with federal labor unions in agencies with national security missions across the federal government, citing authority granted him under a 1978 law.

A U.S. federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration must halt efforts to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington issued a preliminary injunction,

An executive order signed by the president would cancel collective bargaining for hundreds of thousands of workers, the largest federal employees union said. The union was preparing legal action.

A union leader called Trump’s executive order aimed at ending collective bargaining rights for many federal employees “retaliatory”

JD Vance and his wife are due to visit an American military base in Greenland on Friday in a trip scaled back after an uproar among Greenlanders and Danes who were irked that the original itinerary was planned without consulting them.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance visited Greenland and criticized Denmark as President Donald Trump continues to talk of taking over the territory.

The administration of President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit claiming that dozens of labor contracts between unions and federal agencies are invalid because they impede Trump's abilities to purge the federal workforce and protect national security.

The president has targeted firms that he claims have “weaponized” the legal system. On Friday, Jenner & Block and WilmerHale fought back in court, while Mr. Trump said he’d reached a deal with Skadden to avert an executive order.

President Donald Trump and Skadden Arps announced a deal on Friday to head off a potential executive order against the Wall Street firm, widening a rift among prominent law firms over their response to White House actions restricting their work.

The lawsuit is the second against the Trump administration since the president issued a series of executive orders targeting major law firms. A federal judge on March 12 temporarily blocked most of an executive order Trump issued against Perkins Coie,

A law firm filed suit against the Trump administration seeking to block an executive order signed last week that targeted its attorneys' security clearances.

Jenner and Block and WilmerHale are suing President Trump over executive orders targeting the firms for their clients and work, saying they undermine the overall legal system.

Jenner & Block and WilmerHale had employees linked to the Mueller investigation, which provoked Trump in part to punish them.

A prominent Washington law firm targeted by President Donald Trump has sued to block an executive order that threatens its federal contracts and the security clearances of its employees. Jenner & Block said Friday that the executive order is unconstitutional and that it expects to “prevail quickly.