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A federal judge says she hopes to rule next week on whether to block President Donald Trump’s administration from banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.

The Trump administration had already been whittling the agency’s staff, though buyout offers and the termination of probationary employees.

The Department of Education announced a significant reduction in its workforce, marking the first step toward a complete shutdown of the agency.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of ...