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Carolina is dead. He was 71.
Graham's office said he died Saturday night after a brief sudden illness, NPR's Sam Gringlass
reports. Since his election to the Senate in 2002, Graham has become known for promoting muscular
“military intervention abroad, and as Judiciary Chair played a key role confirming”
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. He's owned bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, Graham called Donald Trump a bigot and said Trump would destroy the GOP. But since become one of the president's closest allies, NPR asked Graham about that evolution in 2019.
He's proven to me that he's been a better president than that though, and he really had very low expectations. But what he does is he listens to people, including me and others. I'm called Graham one of the greatest people and senators I have ever known. South Carolina's Republican governor can immediately appoint a replacement.
Sam Gringlass and Piano's Washington. President Trump says he's ordered the military to conduct wide-scale bombing against Iran should Iran assassinate him. However, there's no automatic process that allows the president to trigger a military attack.
“That decision would be up to Vice President JD Bans.”
Well not addressing the specific concern on ABC's this week. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Walls did discuss those kinds of plots
that he says are always a concern to the president.
They have operatives here in the United States, plots are ongoing, but our intelligence community, the FBI are law enforcement entities are absolutely on top of it. Part A Iran's new Supreme Leader vowed to avenge the death of his father, who was killed by air strikes in the first hours of the war. Investors on Wall Street are headed for a busy week with a slew of earnings from major
banks and also a critical inflation report expected NPR's Raphael Nam reports. "Earning season is kicking off again and major banks from Bank of America to J.P. Morgan are set to report their results this week. Netflix will also report its earnings." Leaders are also looking forward to the latest inflation report out on Tuesday.
Consumer prices have searched in the past few months, mainly as energy prices have
“spiked over the war with Iran and Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Worsh is set to testify”
before Congress as part of the traditional semi-annual event. It will be a great opportunity to hear what he makes of the current state of inflation and economy, Raphael Nam and P.R. News. Democrats in Maine have two weeks to select a new candidate to run against incumbent Republican Susan Collins, the previous nominee, Graham Plattener officially ended his campaign
over the weekend. This is NPR. Democratic Senator Sheldon White House of Rhode Island says whistleblowers have detailed what they say are rushed renovations corner cutting and other construction-related problems at the Kennedy Center since President Trump's hand-picked board of trustees took over.
White House says the report shows there have also been no bid contracts, no response from the Kennedy Center to the report. The head of the World Health Organization says the agency is facing complex challenges as it tries to deal with the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Michael Coloky has the latest.
In a statement that W.H.O.'s director general Tedros Gibria Sus said that insecurity in the Congo continues to hamper efforts by his team to respond to the outbreak, adding that mistrust among community members also poses a challenge. Earlier last month, a report by Congolese authorities said the presence of armed groups in parts of the country was continuing to limit humanitarian access to several areas that
either had been hit by the Ebola outbreak or at risk of being affected by the disease. Meanwhile, the UN's World Food Program wants to date that the outbreak in Congo could lead to a sharp increase in severe hunger in the country for NPR news on Michael Coloky in Nairobi.
Flooding in Missouri has killed one person and first responders rescued more than 200 children
and staff at a summer camp in the central part of the state is much as 12 inches of rainfall, Friday night in Saturday morning washing around the roads near Camp Tom's sock in Lesterville, Missouri. This is NPR news. Support for NPR.
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