- South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has died at 71 following a sudden and sudden illness; he was a long-serving Republican known for hawkish foreign policy and was preparing to run for a fifth Senate term.
- President Trump, despite past tensions, called Graham a 'true American pat
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