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WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., excoriated Republicans during a marathon House floor speech Thursday in an attempt to delay the passage of the sweeping GOP bill for President Donald Trump’s agenda.

During his speech, which kicked off just before 5 a.m. and was ongoing more than six hours later, the Democratic leader slammed the GOP bill, often referencing a series of binders as he read notes from Americans who he said would be harmed by Medicaid and SNAP benefit cuts.

The Trump-backed “big, beautiful bill” appears poised to pass the House after several Republican holdouts flipped their votes overnight to support advancing the bill. Jeffries’ speech is part of the debate over the bill, and while it is unlikely he will be able to flip GOP votes, his speech can delay the voting timeline.

House leaders have unlimited speaking time on the floor, using a procedure called a “magic minute.” The longest House floor speech was 8 hours and 32 minutes by then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Jeffries has shown no signs of slowing down, noting that he was taking his “sweet time on behalf of the American people.”

“What is contemplated in this one big, ugly bill is wrong. It’s dangerous, and it’s cruel, and cruelty should not be either the objective or the outcome of legislation that we consider here in the United States House of Representatives,” Jeffries said, arguing that it was “cruel” to cut Medicaid.

Democrats have repeatedly broken into applause throughout Jeffries’ speech. The minority leader zeroed in on the bill’s impact on Medicaid recipients, reading notes from people who rely on government health care programs or have family on Medicaid.

“Above all else, I’m just thankful for the spirit, the heart and soul of the American people who have risen up throughout this country to make it clear to all of us in this institution: Keep your hands off our Medicaid. Keep your hands off our health care,” Jeffries said.

The Senate version of the bill would lead to nearly 12 million people losing health insurance over the next 10 years because of Medicaid cuts, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. It would institute work requirements for able-bodied adults under 65 years old — a key Republican priority — and it would alter the way states fund Medicaid.

The bill also includes huge funding increases for immigration enforcement and the military and would cut Biden-era clean energy tax credits, among other provisions.

Jeffries framed the bill as Republicans “trying to take a chain saw” to social safety net programs.

“Republicans are trying to take a chain saw to Social Security, a chain saw to Medicare, a chain saw to Medicaid, a chain saw to the health care of the American people, a chain saw to nutritional assistance for hungry children, a chain saw to farm country and a chain saw to vulnerable Americans,” Jeffries said.

Jeffries’ speech comes months after Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., set the record for the longest Senate speech, at more than 25 hours.

Dr. Marwan Sultan was taking a rare break from work to be home with his family Wednesday when, at 2:15 p.m., the renowned cardiologist became a grim statistic: the 70th health care worker to be killed by Israeli fire in the past 50 days, according to a Palestinian monitoring group.

Soon after at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa Hospital, an NBC News crew there witnessed grieving family members and colleagues surround the body of the cardiologist, who was killed along with his wife, daughter, son-in-law and sister.

In the morgue, hospital workers wiped blood off Sultan’s ashen and scratched face as his body lay wrapped in a smeared white sheet. Visitors embraced and kissed him, their wails reverberating around the room, according to the video.

“My father was just a doctor, just a human caring for patients,” one of Sultan’s surviving children, Ahmad, said as his voice trembled.

Ahmad, 17, told NBC News that his family was taking shelter in an apartment in Gaza with five other displaced families when the Israeli bomb hit. Later, he wept in the arms of a relative.

Sultan was a cardiologist and the director of Indonesian hospital, one of the largest medical facilities in northern Gaza, where he had been treating the sick and wounded since the war in the Gaza Strip broke out in October 2023.

“He was a rare doctor,” Dr. Munir Bursh, the director general of the Health Ministry, told NBC News between tears. “A man of deep expertise and an even deeper conscience. We didn’t just lose a doctor — we lost a man who was a lifeline to so many.”

Healthcare Workers Watch (HWW), an organization that monitors and verifies attacks against Palestinian health care workers, said that Sultan was the 70th worker to be killed in Israeli airstrikes in the past 50 days.

DHAKA, Bangladesh — A special tribunal has sentenced Bangladesh’s former leader Sheikh Hasina to six months in jail after she was found in contempt of court for allegedly claiming she had a license to kill at least 227 people.

Wednesday’s sentence was the first in any case against Hasina since she fled to India during a mass uprising last year that toppled her 15-year rule.

The contempt case stemmed from a leaked audio recording of a supposed phone conversation between Hasina and a leader of the student wing of her political party. A person alleged to be Hasina is heard on the audio saying: “There are 227 cases against me, so I now have a license to kill 227 people.”

The Criminal Investigation Department confirmed the audio’s authenticity through forensic analysis.

The recording showed Hasina’s anger at the charges of murder and numerous other crimes against her under the interim administration of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, who vowed to punish Hasina and her top aides for the deaths of hundreds of people in the uprising against her.

The sentencing by the Dhaka-based International Crimes Tribunal came as a trial against her being held in absentia on charges of crimes against humanity began in June.

The tribunal had ordered Hasina and her former home minister to respond by May 15. When they failed to do so, the tribunal summoned them May 25 to appear in court June 16. Later the tribunal asked for notices to be published in newspapers asking Hasina to appear.

The prosecution said later neither of the suspects appeared before the court or explained their absence through a lawyer. In such circumstances, the tribunal has the authority to issue a sentence under the law.

Hasina and her Awami League party had earlier criticized the tribunal and its prosecution team for their connection with political parties, especially with the Jamaat-e-Islami party.

The Yunus-led government has banned the former ruling Awami League party and amended laws to allow for the party to be prosecuted for its role during the uprising.

In February, the U.N. human rights office estimated that up to 1,400 people may have been killed in Bangladesh over three weeks in the crackdown on the student-led protests against Hasina, who was the country’s longest serving prime minister.

The tribunal was established by Hasina in 2009 to investigate and try crimes involving Bangladesh’s independence war in 1971. The tribunal under Hasina tried politicians, mostly from the Jamaat-e-Islami party, for their actions during the nine-month war against Pakistan. Aided by India, Bangladesh gained independence from Pakistan under the leadership of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Hasina’s father and the country’s first leader.

“Back in the day in Las Vegas, it was really hard to get fresh coconuts or banana leaves or certain fruits and vegetables,” Favela said. “Whenever it was holiday times, I remember, we would go and stock up on things that my mom couldn’t get at the regular grocery store.”

As an adult, Favela said, he has been going to Broadacres at least once a month and was most recently there the night before the closure was announced.

He recalled feeling something was amiss that Friday evening. Crowds in recent weeks had already been noticeably thinner, Favela said, particularly after the raid at the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet.

“First of all, it was easy to find parking, which is never the case,” Favela said. “Then when I went in, it was maybe a quarter of the people who are usually there. And there was no live music. I knew something was way off.”

Ocampo said he and his family were painfully aware of ICE activity around the country, but the decision to close Broadacres still caught them off-guard.

Vendors were not given notice, with staff members allegedly going booth to booth the morning of June 21 to inform people that the market would be closing that day. Broadacres management did not respond to requests for comment..

“I received a text message from family that morning at around 10 a.m. saying Broadacres was going to close,” Ocampo said. “I thought the worst. I was thinking: Is there an ICE raid happening? What is going on?”

Ocampo’s parents, who spoke on the condition of anonymity and did not want to publicly disclose their immigration statuses for fear of reprisals, said the images from the California raid hit close to home.

The family has lived in the U.S. since 1992. Now, though, in addition to concerns about discrimination and aggressive immigration enforcement, their financial future hangs in the balance.

Translating his father’s Spanish, Ocampo said not much remains of his parents’ booth at Broadacres, where for more than two decades they sold peanuts, pumpkin seeds and various other dry goods. What started as a small peanut stand grew into multiple booths at the swap meet, offering roughly 50 items.

GILIMANUK, Indonesia — Rescuers were searching Thursday for 29 people who were missing after a ferry sank and five people died the previous night near Indonesia’s resort island of Bali.

As of Thursday afternoon, 31 people had been rescued from the ferry’s 53 passengers and 12 crew members, the National Search and Rescue Agency said in a statement.

“The condition of this ship is fully submerged, so there is a possibility that there are people inside the ferry. But right now we are focusing on the surface of the water first,” Surabaya Search and Rescue head Nanang Sigit said.

The five bodies located by rescuers will be taken to their families in Banyuwangi, Sigit said.

The KMP Tunu Pratama Jaya sank almost half an hour after leaving Ketapang port in the East Java town of Banyuwangi late Wednesday for a trip of about 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) to Bali’s Gilimanuk port, authorities said.

A helicopter and 15 boats searched for survivors with assistance from fishermen and people onshore.

Weather was a significant factor in the search effort. Strong waves up to 2 meters (6.5 feet) high and darkness hampered emergency responders overnight. While conditions improved Thursday morning, Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency indicated waves reached up to 2.5 meters (8.2 feet) with strong currents and winds Thursday afternoon.

“For today’s search we are focusing on searching on the water, as the initial victims were found in the water between the location of the accident toward Gilimanuk port,” Sigit said in a statement Thursday morning.

An officer at the port witnessed the sinking before rescuers could be alerted.

“The ferry could not be contacted via radio from the beginning. Then it could be contacted by other ships from the same company. But the ship was already in a tilting condition,” Sigit said.

Many of those rescued were unconscious after drifting in choppy waters for hours, Banyuwangi Police Chief Rama Samtama Putra said.

Indonesian authorities are investigating the cause of the accident. Survivors told rescuers there appeared to be a leak in the engine room of the ferry, which was carrying 22 vehicles including 14 trucks.

Some family members arrived at the port in a panic or weeping as they sought information about their loved ones.

Survivors were taken to nearby medical facilities including Jembrana Regional Hospital in Bali.

“When the ferry started to tilt, I initially intended to jump into the sea, but the ship quickly sank, so I did not jump any more but sank with the water entering the ship, maybe about 7 meters (23 feet) deep, so I immediately climbed up to the top,” said Supardi, 64, a survivor at the hospital.

He and three other people grouped together in the water and used life jackets to say afloat, he said.

Ferry tragedies are common in Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, where ferries are often used as transport and safety regulations can lapse.

Arizona police have shared how authorities were able to track down a 5-year-old boy who wandered into the desert with his dog.

On June 30, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office uploaded nearly three minutes of bodycam footage to YouTube that showed the efforts local sheriff deputies underwent to find the missing child.

The sheriff’s office received a call about a child who had ventured into the desert and could not be located on June 22, the video’s description said. In the footage, a dispatcher relays to an officer that the 5-year-old’s grandparent told police he was wearing an all-green outfit and he “ran away from the location chasing the family dog.”

The child’s grandmother informed police that the family dog usually returned after running off but had not done so this time. As the clip continues, an officer is seen walking through some shrubbery before he spots the young boy and his dog by his side.

“Hi buddy!” the officer says as he approaches the child and picks him up. A couple other officers then attempt to capture the dog. The bodycam footage indicates that the boy was found close to 11 p.m.

One officer carries the child on his shoulders and asks, “Are you ready to fly?” before placing him on the ground.

The officer continues, “You want to go for a ride? Want to go see mama? Let’s go see her!”

The video also includes the emotional reunion between the child and his family.

“Don’t do that!” a tearful woman says as she embraces the boy.

The officers inform the family where they found the 5-year-old and explain they weren’t able to get the dog to follow them as the footage ends.

Police provided more information about the rescue beneath the video.

“The rescue was aided by MCSO K9 Bloodhound Piper, whose tracking skills were crucial in finding the boy quickly,” the description said. “Thanks to the quick response and dedication of our deputies, the boy was found safe with his loyal dog by his side and reunited with his relieved family. We’re grateful for this positive outcome and the teamwork that made it possible.”

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund is demanding the federal government pay $1 million in damages to a U.S. citizen who was arrested and detained while he was recording an immigration raid at a Home Depot in Los Angeles last month.

MALDEF put the government on notice of a coming civil lawsuit for what it says were assault, battery, false arrest and false imprisonment against Job Garcia, 37.

Garcia, a Ph.D. student and photographer, was tackled and thrown to the ground by agents in the Home Depot parking lot in Hollywood, arrested and held for more than 24 hours, MALDEF said.

It said Wednesday that it submitted the claim against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Border Patrol and other Department of Homeland Security agencies involved in Garcia’s arrest.

MALDEF also said that Garcia’s arrest and detention were racially motivated and that the government agents may have violated his constitutional protections for free speech, his right to remain silent, his freedom from unreasonable search and seizure and his right to due process.

MALDEF said the claim is a required administrative step before it files a lawsuit against the Border Patrol, ICE and the other DHS agencies.

“The Border Patrol and ICE agents unlawfully restrained and detained Mr. Garcia for more than 24 hours without any valid grounds for interfering with his liberty and freedom of movement and they did so based on legally prohibited grounds,” MALDEF said in its claim letter, dated Tuesday. MALDEF said he was released without arraignment or notification of a future court date.

DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in an emailed statement that Garcia assaulted and verbally harassed a federal agent and that he was subdued and arrested for the alleged assault. She repeated Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s warning that anyone who lays a hand on a law enforcement officer will be fully prosecuted.

Ernest Herrera, MALDEF’s Western regional counsel, said the claim sends a message to the federal government about punishing people for exercising their First Amendment rights “and for hurting bystanders and protesters, whether they be U.S. citizens or not during these raids that are happening in public places.”

Garcia regularly traveled to Los Angeles-area Home Depots for his job as a delivery driver for an online business. He and others saw agents making the arrests and started recording them on his smartphone, MALDEF said.

When Customs and Border Patrol agents surrounded a commercial light truck, he and other bystanders yelled to the driver not to open his door or window and to keep silent, according to MALDEF.

“All individuals that Border Patrol agents had detained up to this point appeared to be Latino or Latin American national origin. The driver of the light commercial truck also appeared to be Latino or of Latin American national origin,” it said.

MALDEF said a masked agent lunged at Garcia and tried to grab his phone, leading him to move backward. The agent who had lunged at him threw Garcia’s phone to the ground and tackled him. Other agents joined in, restraining him with their knees in his back and pressing his face into the asphalt, even though he did not resist, MALDEF said.

“Mr. Garcia felt that his breathing was restricted and momentarily feared that he may be killed in this position,” the claim says. An agent transferring Garcia tried to speak to him in Spanish “and was surprised when Mr. Garcia responded in English” but continued to try to speak Spanish to him.

Garcia was taken to Dodger Stadium in handcuffs. By that time, agents had confirmed that he was a citizen with no criminal warrants and that there was no information to suspect he had committed a crime, MALDEF said.

“During this time, Garcia said he heard the agents boasting about how many ‘bodies’ they had gotten that day and saw them celebrate with high-fives,” it said.

The claim also sends a message that “the American public does not approve of this sort of immigration enforcement action where people are terrorized, where certain people are targeted and agents themselves are bragging about how many bodies they got,” Herrera said.

Agents tried to interrogate Garcia after they read him his rights, MALDEF said. He refused to answer questions and was not read his rights when later attempts were made to interrogate him, it said. He was transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles and released the next day, without arraignment or any information about a future court date, MALDEF said.

“Border Patrol and ICE punished me for informing others of their rights and exercising my own rights,” Garcia said in the MALDEF statement.

MALDEF said Garcia sustained bruising on his back, neck, arms, face and legs from the tackling and restraint, that he is suffering emotional distress and that he lost out on more than four days of delivery work, costing him $2,500 to $3,000.

He also has stopped his academic work because of emotional distress and might not complete his program in a year, as expected, MALDEF said.

“When government engages in widespread violation of individual rights with respect to immigrants without status, the harm inevitably spills over and spreads to others; that is why we must insist, as a society, on respect for the rights of everyone,” Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF’s president and general counsel, said in a statement.

“Here, a citizen, acting in the best traditions of our democracy, was engaged in documenting government misconduct to encourage policy change; he was wrongfully arrested and detained because of his race and his heroic efforts,” Saenz said.

Rob McElhenney isn’t making any apologies over his decision to change his name, but he is making a few jokes about it.

The “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” star addressed the move amid reports he has filed paperwork to change his name.

“Yes, I’m shortening my name to Rob Mac,” he said in the July 1 clip he posted on X, confirming the news himself. “Mostly a stage name, but I digress.”

He then used his trademark humor to explain just what has gone into his decision.

“The amount of time that I have wasted trying to get people to either say or spell my name correctly is literally days of my life,” he said, as quick clips of others saying his name wrong played in the middle of him speaking, “Trust me, I added it up.

“More importantly, it means thousands of you have had minutes of your life stolen by me because of my last name.”

McElhenney playfully pointed out the false connection the family has to the moniker.

“Still, it’s a family name,” he said. “My grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and I all share it, and I love them and I want to stay connected. There’s heritage. Except, it’s not even really our f—— name.”

He then explained how different generations have changed the spelling of it.

“The current one was just given to my ancestor by a government official who decided that this was now the spelling,” he said, while also revealing his great-great-grandmother went by Bridget McIllhenny.

McElhenney then dove into how ridiculous the whole matter is.

“Times have changed and most people already call me Rob Mac anyway,” he said. “My family knows me and loves me regardless of how many syllables I have, and that’s the only thing that I really care about. There are so many things going on in the world, and this is a silly one to continue to waste your time with.”

McElhenney also said he’s OK with whatever name people want to give him, using the actual first names of celebrities as their pictures appeared on the screen.

“Honestly, call me whatever you want: Marion, Jerome, Archibald, Eric, Maurice, Stephanie, Frances, Marvin, Gordon or Sam. But maybe we just keep it simple and try Rob Mac. Let’s see how it goes,” he said.

In May, McElhenney opened up about how he was mulling over a name change in the wake of his multimedia company, More Better Industries, adding to its global portfolio.

“As our business and our storytelling is expanding into other regions of the world and other languages in which my name is even harder to pronounce, I’m just going by Rob Mac,” he told Variety.

The level of difficulty in pronouncing “McElhenney” is old hat. In 2023, his friend and fellow co-owner of Wrexham A.F.C. soccer club, Ryan Reynolds, released a humorous video about how to say it.

“It’s Mackle-Henney, it’s Mackle-Henney,” Reynolds sang with a roster of guest stars, including McElhenney’s wife, Kaitlin Olson, and Philadelphia Eagles legend Jason Kelce.