Today is Saturday, May 10, the 130th day of 2025. There are 235 days left in the year.

Today in history:

On May 10, 1869, a golden spike was driven in a ceremony in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States.

Also on this date:

In 1775, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, along with Col. Benedict Arnold, captured the British-held fortress at Ticonderoga, New York.

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In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured by Union forces near Irwinville, Georgia.

In 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was named acting director of the Bureau of Investigation (later known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI) by President Calvin Coolidge; Hoover would serve as FBI director until 1972.

In 1933, book burnings were held in 34 cities across Germany, targeting authors whose ideologies were in conflict with Nazism.

In 1940, during World War II, German forces began invading the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium and France. On the same day, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigned, and Winston Churchill formed a new government.

In 1994, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated, becoming the first Black president of South Africa.

In 1994, the state of Illinois executed serial killer John Wayne Gacy, 52, for the murders of 33 young men and boys.

In 2014, Michael Sam was selected by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the NFL draft, becoming the first openly gay player drafted by a National Football League team.

In 2023, Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican infamous for fabricating his life story, was indicted on charges that he duped donors, stole from his campaign and lied to Congress. (Santos pled guilty in August 2024, and was sentenced to 87 months in prison in April 2025.)

Today’s Birthdays:

Basketball Hall of Fame coach Jim Calhoun is 83.
Musician-songwriter Donovan is 79.
Sen. Fashion designer Miuccia Prada is 76.
Olympic skiing medalists Phil and Steve Mahre are 68.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., is 66.
Singer-activist Bono (U2) is 65.
Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, is 65.
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is 62.
Model Linda Evangelista is 60.
Rapper Young MC is 58.
Racing driver Helio Castroneves is 50.
Actor Kenan Thompson is 47.
Olympic swimming gold medalist Missy Franklin is 30.

By JANIE HAR, Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday.

Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco issued the emergency order in a lawsuit filed by labor unions and cities last week, one of multiple legal challenges to Republican President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the size of a federal government he calls bloated and expensive.

“The Court holds the President likely must request Congressional cooperation to order the changes he seeks, and thus issues a temporary restraining order to pause large-scale reductions in force in the meantime,” Illston wrote in her order.

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The temporary restraining order directs numerous federal agencies to halt acting on the president’s workforce executive order signed in February and a subsequent memo issued by the Department of Government Efficiency and the Office of Personnel Management.

The order, which expires in 14 days, does not require departments to rehire people. Plaintiffs asked that the effective date of any agency action be postponed and that departments stop implementing or enforcing the executive order, including taking any further action.

They limited their request to departments where dismantlement is already underway or poised to be underway, including at the the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which announced in March it will lay off 10,000 workers and centralize divisions.

Illston, who was nominated to the bench by former President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, said at a hearing Friday the president has authority to seek changes in the executive branch departments and agencies created by Congress.

“But he must do so in lawful ways,” she said. “He must do so with the cooperation of Congress, the Constitution is structured that way.”

Trump has repeatedly said voters gave him a mandate to remake the federal government, and he tapped billionaire Elon Musk to lead the charge through DOGE.

Tens of thousands of federal workers have been fired, left their jobs via deferred resignation programs or have been placed on leave as a result of Trump’s government-shrinking efforts. There is no official figure for the job cuts, but at least 75,000 federal employees took deferred resignation, and thousands of probationary workers have already been let go.

Lawyers for the government argued Friday that the executive order and memo calling for large-scale personnel reductions and reorganization plans provided only general principles that agencies should follow in exercising their own decision-making process.

“It expressly invites comments and proposals for legislative engagement as part of policies that those agencies wish to implement,” Eric Hamilton, a deputy assistant attorney general, said of the memo. “It is setting out guidance.”

But Danielle Leonard, an attorney for plaintiffs, said it was clear that the president, DOGE and OPM were making decisions outside of their authority and not inviting dialogue from agencies.

“They are not waiting for these planning documents” to go through long processes, she said. “They’re not asking for approval, and they’re not waiting for it.”

The temporary restraining order applies to departments including the departments of Agriculture, Energy, Labor, Interior, State, Treasury and Veteran Affairs.

It also applies to the National Science Foundation, Small Business Association, Social Security Administration and Environmental Protection Agency.

Some of the labor unions and nonprofit groups are also plaintiffs in another lawsuit before a San Francisco judge challenging the mass firings of probationary workers. In that case, Judge William Alsup ordered the government in March to reinstate those workers, but the U.S. Supreme Court later blocked his order.

Plaintiffs include the cities of San Francisco, Chicago and Baltimore; labor group American Federation of Government Employees; and nonprofit groups Alliance for Retired Americans, Center for Taxpayer Rights and Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks.

Chris Paddack has often lamented this season that he wished he could pitch deeper into games and give his team more innings. He found one way to ensure he pitched into the sixth inning on Friday — don’t allow any baserunners.

Paddack’s flirtation with a perfect game came to an end with two outs in the sixth when Christian Koss lined a single to center after Paddack had retired 17 straight batters to begin the game. But the right-hander’s dominant performance led the Twins to victory nonetheless, their sixth straight in a 3-1 win over the San Francisco Giants on Friday night at Target Field.

Paddack, who hadn’t pitched past five innings this season, was sharp and efficient in his 7 1/3-inning effort, leaving to a standing ovation from the Target Field crowd and hugs from his teammates on his way to picking up his first win of the year.

Working with velocity that was up on every pitch from his season average — it was up 1.4 mph on his four-seam fastball — the starter carved through the Giants’ lineup.

But his bid for perfection almost never happened.

A ball that Willy Adames, the second batter of the game, hit out to left was initially ruled a home run before a review showed it to be just foul. Besides that, Paddack faced little trouble from the Giants for most of the night, throwing under 10 pitches in three of his innings.

His only blemish on the day came when San Francisco third baseman Matt Chapman hit a home run in the seventh, stopping Paddack’s shutout attempt. He wound up pitching into the eighth, making way for Louie Varland with a runner on base. Varland quickly got the Twins out of the inning, preserving the lead.

With Jhoan Duran and Griffin Jax having thrown on consecutive days heading into Friday, the Twins turned to southpaw Danny Coulombe in the ninth and he picked up his second save of the season.

The Twins had jumped out to a lead immediately, their offense jumpstarted by Byron Buxton, who tripled to lead off the bottom of the first. He quickly came around to score on Trevor Larnach’s RBI knock.

They added another run in the fourth when Carlos Correa’s single brought home Ty France, and scored their third run of the game an inning later when Harrison Bader scored after left fielder Heliot Ramos bobbled a ball hit towards him.

With the win, the Twins now sit just one game under .500 at 19-20 on the season.

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The Minnesota Frost proved the ability to rally last year when they came back after Game 1 losses in both playoff series on the way to winning the PWHL’s inaugural Walter Cup.

Minnesota is trying to do it again.

The Frost — who had to win the final two games of the regular season on the road just to qualify for the playoffs — lost 3-2 in Game 1 in Toronto on Wednesday. They pulled even in the best-of-five series on Friday in Toronto against the Sceptres with a 5-3 win, scoring twice in the third period.

Last year, the lost the first two games in Toronto in the first round and the first game in Boston in the finals. Being down has not seemed to affect Minnesota.

Sophie Jaques scored the game-winning goal at 13:47 of the third and Mellissa Channell-Watkins added a power-play goal with 71 seconds remaining. Lee Stecklein scored twice for the Frost and Michela Cava had a goal. Taylor Heise and Kelly Pannek each had two assists.

Maddie Rooney stopped 27 of 30 shots in goal for Minnesota.

Perhaps it’s no surprise the Frost even rallied in the game Thursday.

Toronto’s Hayley Scamurra opened the scoring 7:11 into the game for the lone goal in the first.

Minnesota then took control. Stecklein’s first goal came just 4:41 into the second. Cava scored a little over six minutes later and Stecklein made it a 3-1 game on the power play at 12:59 of the middle frame.

But the Sceptres also rallied.

Savannah Harmon scored on a power play at 16:56 of the second with only 14 seconds left in the man advantage with Heise in the penalty box for elbowing, the Frost’s lone penalty in the game.

Allie Munroe tied the game for Toronto 27 seconds later.

Despite being outshot 13-4 in the third, Minnesota managed to put two pucks behind Sceptres goaltender Kristin Campbell, who finished with 20 saves.

Toronto outshot the Frost 30-25. But Minnesota was 2 for 3 on the power play in evening the series, which shifts to the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul on Sunday with a 5 p.m. puck drop.

Curl-Salemme suspended

The Frost were also playing short-handed as forward Britta Curl-Salemme was suspended for Game 2 for a hit she delivered in Game 1. The PWHL Player Safety Committee handed down the suspension, the third of Curl-Salemme’s rookie season, on Friday morning.

Curl-Salemme scored the Frost’s first goal in Game 1, but moments later was assessed a 5-minute major and game misconduct for what PWHL Player Safety characterized as “a high and forceful check” on Toronto blue liner Renata Fast.

Curl-Salemme, was skating the puck out of her own end when she raised an elbow and appeared to catch Fast in the jaw. The hit, the league said in a statement Friday, made “the head the main point of contact on a play where such contact to the head was avoidable.”

Fast played in Game 2.

A rookie from Wisconsin, Curl-Salemme had been fined and suspended twice already this season, once for a high sticking incident on Jan. 2 against Boston and again for an illegal check to the head on Mar. 9 against Toronto.

Minnesota coach Ken Klee said Curl-Salemme was not “a malicious person,” and, while acknowledging it cost her a game, that Wednesday’s incident was a competitive hockey play.

“For players that play hard and aggressive, sometimes it’s tough,” Klee said. “It’s happening in a split second. It’s nothing malicious for her. I mean, obviously, we know that decisions are going to be made, but for her, she’s trying to play hard, trying to do her job.”

The PWHL’s Player Safety Committee is chaired by PWHL executive vice president of hockey operations and includes PWHL special advisor Cassie Campbell-Pascall, former NHL referee Bill McCreary, longtime NHL executive Mike Murphy and Matt McMahon, a member of the NHL’s Player Safety department.

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