On Capitol Hill, Republican leaders appear to have convinced enough far-right holdouts to win passage of President Trump’s sweeping package of tax cuts for the wealthy and deep cuts to social programs including Medicaid and food assistance. As of this broadcast, lawmakers are preparing for a final vote on the bill, after House Speaker Mike Johnson won the support of Republicans who objected to its price tag, which the Congressional Budget Office says will add $3.3 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates some 17 million people could lose health insurance over the next decade, as well, if the bill is approved. We’ll go to Capitol Hill for an update later in the broadcast.

Officials in Gaza say Israeli attacks have killed over 300 Palestinians in the past 48 hours. Among the dead are at least 11 people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a school housing displaced Palestinians west of Gaza City. Another attack on a tent encampment near Khan Younis killed 13 people, including a couple and their four children. Meanwhile, a strike killed renowned cardiologist Marwan al-Sultan, who served as director of Gaza’s Indonesian Hospital. He’s at least the 70th healthcare worker killed by Israel in the past 50 days. His daughter Lubna al-Sultan said her mother, sister and aunt were also killed in the strike.

Lubna al-Sultan: “My father is a cardiologist at the Indonesian Hospital and the hospital’s director. He is neither in any movement nor affiliated with anything. He just cares for the sick, treats them and comforts them throughout the war. … The war must stop. We are hungry. We are scared. We have lost people. I call upon everyone to intensify efforts to stop the war and do whatever they can to calm things down.”

Palestinians say at least 33 people have been slaughtered today as they queued for aid at militarized aid distribution sites run by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. The reportedly unprovoked killings came as the Associated Press published recent video showing U.S. contractors at GHF sites firing live ammunition and stun grenades at starving Palestinians as they scrambled for food. The AP says it received the footage from two U.S. contractors who wished to remain anonymous in order to blow the whistle on abuses. The contractors report security staffers were often unqualified, unvetted, heavily armed and seemed to have an open license to do whatever they wished. In this clip published by AP, contractors erupt in cheers as shots ring out.

Julia Frankel: “At that moment, bursts of gunfire erupt close by, at least 15 shots.”

U.S. contractor 1: “I think you hit one.”

U.S. contractor 2: “Hell, yeah, boy!”

This week, 170 charities and aid groups, including Oxfam, Save the Children and Amnesty International, signed a joint statement calling for an end to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, citing its “blatant disregard for international humanitarian law.” Meanwhile, Hamas says it’s studying a ceasefire proposal that President Trump has called a “final” offer.

Israel’s Likud party is pressing for the formal annexation of the occupied West Bank, saying it hopes to complete the takeover ahead of a parliamentary recess at the end of July. This comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed he’ll visit Washington, D.C., next week to meet with President Trump.

This week, the State Department and the Pentagon approved a $510 million sale of bomb guidance kits to Israel. The sale comes as The Guardian reported Israel used a U.S.-made 500-pound bomb when it attacked a crowded beachfront cafe in Gaza on Monday, killing dozens of Palestinians, including children celebrating a birthday.

Britain’s House of Commons has voted to ban the direct action group Palestine Action under the U.K.'s anti-terrorism laws, adding it to a list that includes ISIS and al-Qaeda. This comes just days after Palestine Action members breached an air force base and damaged warplanes to protest Britain's support for Israel’s assault on Gaza. Ahead of Wednesday’s vote, hundreds of people rallied outside 10 Downing Street to protest what they called an abuse of state power by Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour government.

Protester: “I mean, we have — we should have freedom of speech and freedom of standing against genocide. How does that make you a terrorist? I will never understand that. And I think it’s people in power trying to silence people who are wanting to stand up for what is — what is right.”

A U.N. human rights expert has named 60 companies she says are profiting from Israel’s campaign of genocidal violence in Gaza or the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank. The report by special rapporteur for Palestine Francesca Albanese names manufacturers Lockheed Martin and Caterpillar, investment firm BlackRock and tech giants including Alphabet and Amazon, among others.

Hundreds of peace activists rallied in Washington, D.C., this week to protest the annual meeting of Christians United for Israel, one of the largest pro-Israel organizations in the U.S. On Monday, activists unfurled banners reading ”CUFI Kills” and “No God Bombs Children.” On Tuesday, police arrested more than 50 people as they held peaceful protests inside congressional office buildings on Capitol Hill.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has struck down the Trump administration’s efforts to ban asylum protections for migrants crossing through the southern border. In his ruling, Judge Randolph D. Moss overturned a proclamation issued by Trump on his first day in office that falsely declared an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border and invoked emergency presidential powers to expel immigrants from the U.S. without due process or allowing them to seek asylum, in violation of international and U.S. federal law. ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt, who argued the merits of the case, said in a statement, “This is a hugely important decision. Not only will it save the lives of families fleeing grave danger, it reaffirms that the president cannot ignore the laws Congress has passed and the most basic premise of our country’s separation of powers.” This follows reports the Trump administration plans to dismiss the asylum cases of hundreds of thousands of people who entered the U.S. outside a port of entry, in order to place them on expedited deportation proceedings.

Attorneys representing Kilmar Abrego Garcia say the Maryland father was brutally beaten and tortured during the three months he was imprisoned in El Salvador after the Trump administration wrongfully sent him there in March. The reports of abuse were detailed in court documents filed Wednesday as part of a civil lawsuit against the U.S. government that describe how Abrego Garcia was “subjected to severe mistreatment upon arrival at CECOT, including but not limited to severe beatings, severe sleep deprivation, inadequate nutrition, and psychological torture.” Abrego Garcia’s lawyers say he lost 31 pounds during his first two weeks of confinement at the CECOT mega-prison, and that later he and four others were transferred to a different part of the prison, “where they were photographed with mattresses and better food — photos that appeared to be staged to document improved conditions.” Abrego García is currently in federal custody in Nashville. Click here to see our coverage of his case.

A 22-year-old stateless Palestinian woman, has been released from a Texas ICE jail after five months in custody. On Tuesday, Ward Sakeik reunited with her husband, who’d been fighting for her freedom. The Trump administration repeatedly attempted to deport her despite a judge’s order barring her removal from the U.S. Sakeik’s family is from Gaza, and she was born in Saudi Arabia, which does not grant birthright citizenship to the children of immigrants. Sakeik was taken by federal agents in February upon returning from her honeymoon in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A federal appeals court this week denied the Trump administration’s request to rearrest Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri and send him back to ICE detention while his case proceeds. Khan Suri will remain free with his wife and three children in Virginia, after he was released in May. Click here to see our coverage of his case.

Another immigrant has died in ICE custody. Isidro Pérez was a 75-year-old from Cuba who had lived in the United States for nearly 60 years. He was a fisherman who lived on his boat in Miami. Pérez was taken into ICE custody in early June and died less than a month after being jailed at the Krome Detention Center. His health was fragile, as he had previously survived a heart attack and three catheterizations. His cause of death has not been determined, as activists have long decried medical neglect and abuse inside ICE jails. Pérez is at least the fifth person to die in ICE custody in Florida this year and the 13th case since the start of 2025.

Here in New York, hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is to remain in custody awaiting sentencing after a jury acquitted him of all but two lesser counts in his sex trafficking federal trial. Combs was convicted Wednesday on two prostitution-related charges, but acquitted of more serious racketeering and sex trafficking charges. The verdict culminated nearly seven weeks of trial in which two of Combs’s former partners testified he brutally physically and sexually assaulted them. This is the attorney for Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, whose 2023 civil lawsuit against Combs helped spur a federal investigation.

Douglas Wigdor: “We’re pleased that he’s finally been held responsible for two federal crimes, something that he’s never faced in his life. He still faces substantial jail time. Of course, we would have liked to have seen a conviction on the sex crimes and RICO, but we understand beyond reasonable doubt is a high standard, and we’re just pleased that he still faces substantial jail time.”

Hotel surveillance footage from 2016, released last year, showed Combs running after Cassie Ventura, violently throwing her on the ground as she tried to escape; he repeatedly kicked her and then dragged her back to their room. Prosecutors accused Combs of repeatedly assaulting several women, drugging and coercing women and men to perform sexual acts, and being part of a criminal organization that engaged in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and other crimes since at least 2008. Combs faces up to 20 years in prison.

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has struck down an 1849 law banning abortions, making the procedure legal and accessible in Wisconsin for the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. The 4-3 ruling by the court’s liberal justices comes just three months after Elon Musk spent $25 million in an unsuccessful attempt to flip a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, making it the most expensive judicial election in U.S. history. In a statement, the nonprofit Reproductive Freedom for All wrote, “This victory didn’t happen by chance. In 2023, we fought to help elect Judge Janet Protasiewicz — flipping the balance of the court and protecting our reproductive freedom at a critical time. Organizing works. Elections matter.”

A former FBI agent who allegedly encouraged rioters to murder police officers during the January 6 Capitol insurrection has been given a job at the Justice Department. According to a 2023 indictment, the former agent, Jared Wise, repeatedly shouted “Kill ’em!” at rioters as they battled a police line of officers protecting the Capitol. Wise was on trial in January when President Trump issued sweeping pardons and commutations for over 1,500 January 6 rioters on his first day back in office. The New York Times reports Wise is now serving as counselor to Ed Martin, the director of the so-called Weaponization Working Group, which Trump established to seek retribution against his enemies. This comes after Attorney General Pam Bondi last week fired three more federal prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases.

President Trump says he’s struck a trade agreement with Vietnam that will see U.S. goods enter the country duty-free. In return, the U.S. will apply a 20% tariff on Vietnamese imports, down from the 46% rate Trump announced in April. The reported deal comes just weeks after the Trump Organization broke ground on a $1.5 billion golf course in Vietnam. Meanwhile, Reuters reports Eric Trump recently visited Ho Chi Minh City to explore plans to build a Trump-branded skyscraper.