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President Trump is remembering Senator Lindsey Graham as a great politician and a skilled deal maker.
“Trump spoke on NBC's meet the press this morning.”
The South Carolina Republican died last night in Washington at age 71, NPR's Eric McDaniel reports. Trump City spoke to Graham by phone Saturday night after the Senator returned from a trip abroad. He remembered the South Carolinian as a loyal ally who fiercely advocated for the president's
agenda, despite in acrimonious 2016 Republican primary fight. Here's Trump speaking to NBC's Kristen Wilker this morning. This man was a great politician. He really got it. Graham's temporary replacement will be appointed by South Carolina's Republican governor
and serve for the rest of the year. A new Republican nominee will be elected in August and will compete for a six year term in November's general election against Democratic nominee Annie Andrews in the Ruby Red State.
“Eric McDaniel and PR News 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 death of a president to trigger a military attack and that decision would be up to Vice President JD Vance. While not addressing the specific concern on ABC's this week, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz did discuss those type of plots that he says are concerning to President
Trump. 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. On Saturday, Iran's new Supreme Leader vowed to avenge the death of his father who was
killed by air strikes in the first hour of the war.
The head of the World Health Organization says his agency is facing complex challenges as it tries to deal with the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Michael Coloki reports. In a statement that W.H.O.'s director general Tedros Gibriacus 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 were at risk of being affected by the disease. Meanwhile, the U.N. World Food Program wants today that the outbreak in Congo could lead
to a sharp increase in severe hunger in the country for imperial use of Michael Coloki in Nairobi. Even as the U.S. and Iran continued to exchange military strikes, President Trump today said
the critical straight of her moods remains open to commercial traffic before Trump's
call to NBC. Iran said the straight had been closed for traffic, you're listening to NPR news. The top ranked men's tennis player in the world, at least 24-year-old Yannick Center, is the champion at Wimbleton in London winning his fifth career Grand Slam title. Center also captured the title last year at the All England Club.
He defeated the number two player in the world, Alexander Zerv, in a match that took three hours and 46 minutes, making this the second longest win in his career. More University students are sticking with it. A new report finds a higher number of students are remaining enrolled in college after their first semester.
NPR's Alyssa Notwerney has the story. The National Student Clearing House Research Center tracks persistence and retention. As he, if students who had to college actually stay there on the path to a degree, more
than 2.6 million students started college in the fall of 2024.
And the report found more than 77% of them returned to school for a second year. That's up slightly from the prior year's data. There were also increases in the outcomes for black and Hispanic students. They saw decade high rates at which they returned to college for the next fall. Social gaps still persist with white and Asian students returning to college at higher
rates. Alyssa Notwerney and Pianos. A heat wave is expected to cross much of the country this week. Two thirds of the nation could be impacted. Temperatures of forecast to be 15 to 25 degrees hotter than normal from the southwest of
the grain planes before the heat moves to the east coast later in the week. Temperatures could be broken across the country. This is NPR news. Support for NPR. This is our glass of the American life.
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