NBC: Top Stories

• Judge says Trump administration violated court order with deportation flight linked to South Sudan

  Eight people from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico and South Sudan were on a flight intended for South Sudan this week.

• Trump accuses South Africa of 'white genocide' in meeting with country’s president

  During a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump alleged that there was a genocide against white people in South Africa. Trump played a video purporting to show support for violence against Afrikaners. Ramaphosa said there is “criminality in our country,” but clarified that the clips Trump played are not government policy. 

• Trump urges GOP to stop negotiating and pass spending bill

  House Republicans are still battling over President Donald Trump’s massive multitrillion dollar tax and border bill, which is opposed by all Democrats. The legislation includes major boosts in funding for immigration enforcement and the military as well as extends Trump's 2017 tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year, and it’s paid for by cuts to food assistance, clean energy funding and Medicaid. The president traveled to Capitol Hill Tuesday to urge Republicans to stop negotiating an

• Trump's crypto dinner cost over $1 million per seat, on average

  More than 200 wealthy, mostly anonymous crypto buyers are coming to Washington on Thursday to have dinner with President Donald Trump.

• Former Sean Combs assistant says his job was repeatedly threatened

  George Kaplan testified one of his duties was to clean Combs' hotel rooms so messy photos couldn't be sold to tabloids.