A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump's administration from shutting down Job Corps, a major residential job training program for low-income youth. U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter in Manhattan said the abrupt shuttering of the 60-year-old program by the U.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration's plan to shut down the taxpayer-funded Job Corps has to be put on pause until a lawsuit against the move is resolved.

A US judge blocked the Trump administration from shutting down Job Corps, a key program for low-income youth. The ruling deemed the closure likely illegal, as it lacked Congressional authorisation