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President Trump at others are praising the late Senator Lindsey Graham who died Saturday
night. Graham was 71. Paramedics were called to his Washington DC home for a report of a person suffering a medical emergency. Graham's fellow South Carolina Senator Tim Scott was on CNN State of the Union.
"America's lost a true state's been. We don't have many left, but he was a true state's been, but I've lost a friend. It is a morning of morning for me.
“It's a powerful reminder that life is fleeting, that we are not here very long."”
Graham had just returned to Washington after a fact-finding trip to Ukraine. Congress is back in session tomorrow, and with the death of Lindsey Graham, the Republican ranks have thinned even further, making it more difficult to pass important legislation,
NPR's marvelous in reports.
The Republican majority in Congress was already slim, and it just got slimmer. The sudden death of Senator Graham, and the absence of Republican Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, makes Congress's job harder. McConnell has been hospitalized since mid-June, and there's not been a lot of information about his condition.
Meanwhile, Congress has to pass the National Defense Authorization Act, plus an emergency supplemental funding request from the Pentagon to help pay for the war in Iran. Both are big priorities on Capitol Hill. President Trump has been demanding that the Senate passed an elections bill, which among other things would curtail male invoiting, but Republican leaders in Congress have told
him they don't have the votes to pass it. Moralias and NPR news.
“The U.S. military overnight conducted new air strikes against Iranian targets and Iran,”
hits several of its neighbors in the Middle East, including Kuwait, Oman, Jordan, Qatar, and Bahrain. The Retie repeated fighting in the last week has put the fragile ceasefire and talks for a permit at end to the war in jeopardy. NPR's Kerry Cotton is in northern Israel.
She has the latest on the back and forth military action concerning the straight-of-horn moves. On Saturday, Iran said it fired warning shots at a container ship attempting to transit the straight. And this was along a southern route that huds the coast of Oman, according to media accounts
and videos that ship caught fire and the crew was forced to abandon it. The U.S. and the U.S. have been encouraging ships to use this alternative route. It's a way from the coast of Iran, Iran insists that this is a violation of the memorandum of understanding that the U.S. and Iran signed last month. A heat wave is expected across much of the country this week.
“Two-thirds of the nation could be impacted.”
Pictures are forecast to be 15 to 25 degrees hotter than normal from the southwest to the great planes before the heat wave eventually moves into the east coast. The National Weather Service says record temperatures could be reported across the country. This is NPR. Two people were shot and killed for others wounded in Toronto, Saturday.
In what police thought was an active shooter situation, but it was actually a gun battle between two people who were targeting each other. The shootings took place at an annual Latin American Cultural Festival, which draws thousands of people for live music, dancing, food and performances. The final four teams in the FIFA World Cup are now set in the quarterfinals.
France will play Spain, England will face the defending champ, Argentina, NPR's Becky Sullivan reports.
Saturdays two games both went to extra time, first and hot and muggy Florida, England outlasted
Norway in their thrilling hooking star striker, Erling Holland. The 23-year-old English phenom Jude-Bellingham scored both goals in a two-to-one victory to send the three lines through. In Kansas City, Argentina was taken to the brink yet again. Switzerland went down a man after a video review led to a second yellow card for forward
Braille and Bolo, yet they clung to a one-to-one tie for the rest of the second half and much of extra time before Argentina finally took the lead. Superstar Leonardo Messi did not score goal, breaking a streak of nine straight world cup games in which he had found the net, still he has eight goals overall for this tournament and now two more chances to score even more.
Becky Sullivan and Pierre-News, Kansas City. Triple A says the price of gasoline is up as the war with Iran has resumed unlettered regular increase more than seven cents this week to 387 a gallon. Diesel was up 11 cents to 488. The increase is in price.
Come even as demand for gasoline to climb last week as people drive less after the fourth of July. It's NPR. Support free. This is our glass of the American life.
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