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1 day ago | nbcnews.com | Sahil Kapur

President Donald Trump on Saturday criticized Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., over his opposition to a bill that would fund much of his domestic agenda, threatening to meet with primary challengers to Tillis, who is running for re-election next year. "Numerous people have come forward wanting to run in the Primary against 'Senator Thom' Tillis," Trump wrote Saturday night.

1 day ago | nbcnews.com | Kimmy Yam

For months while in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody, Badar Khan Suri, the Georgetown University postdoctoral scholar who was targeted for deportation by the Trump administration, said he spun a tale for his 5-year-old sons to help them cope with his absence. "For my younger twins, I created a story they could hold on to: I told them I was traveling and had gotten lost somewhere in the clouds, trying to find my way back home," Khan Suri said in an email to NBC News.

2 days ago | nbcnews.com | Ryan Nobles

WASHINGTON - Senate Republican leaders are hoping to start voting on their massive domestic policy bill on Saturday, even as major pieces of it have yet to be finalized. GOP senators held a lengthy lunch meeting Friday with House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, as the process grows messy and acrimonious with a host of conflicting demands persisting within the party. Still, Republican leaders put members on notice that Senate votes were imminent.

2 days ago | nbcnews.com | Minyvonne Burke

The president of the University of Virginia is resigning following pressure from the Trump administration to step aside amid a Justice Department probe into the school's diversity practices. James E. Ryan convened a meeting with his senior leadership on Friday and announced that he would be stepping down, according to a source who attended the UVA Board of Visitors meeting.

2 days ago | nbcnews.com | Kimmy Yam

Iranian university students who planned to study in the United States said that their academic careers have been derailed by the Trump administration's visa ban on people from their country. Mohamad Enayati, a 28-year-old civil engineering student, said he had spent years attempting to obtain a visa to study in the U.S., stressing out his family with every rejection and losing touch with friends along the way.