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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has died at the age of 71.
Preliminary medical examiner findings, shared by his office, show the cause of death as "aordic dissection" due to a type of heart disease, as Imperial Sam Greenglass 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, around his own 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 in that though, and he wanted it. I really, I had very low expectations, but what he does is he listens to people, including me and others.
Trump called Graham one of the greatest people and senators I have ever known.
South Carolina's Republican governor can immediately appoint a replacement, Sam Greenglass and Piano's Washington. As the U.S. and Iran exchanged new round of strikes, Washington and Tehran are also clashing over the status of the Strait of Hormuz, a key global trade route, Imperial Shannon Bond has more.
“Iran fired at and disabled a commercial container ship passing through the Strait of”
Hormuz on Saturday. With said ships were attempting to quote "travel along an unapproved route." Tehran said the Strait is closed to transit entirely amid the latest round of hostilities with the U.S. But President Trump rejected that claim speaking to NBC's meet the press on Sunday.
"It's open. We bomb the hell out of him last night." U.S. central commands as it's striking targets in Iran in retaliation, to quote "continue degrading their ability to attack civilian mariners and commercial ships freely transiting the Strait of Hormuz."
Shannon Bond and Piano is. 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 has more.
“In his statement, the 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 UN's World Food Program want today that the outbreak in Congo could lead to a sharp increase in severe hunger in the country. Several MPR news on Michael Coloki in Nairobi U.S. features contracts are trading lower at this hour, you're listening to NPR News from Washington.
The U.S. congressman says he was threatened by Israeli settlers during a recent visit to the Occupied West Fag. Rokana, a California Democrat, claims Israeli soldiers aid at the attackers and blocked him from leaving, from Mamala. The U.S. congressman, Rokana says what he saw in the West Bank, including attacks on
Palestinians and their villages by Israeli settlers, is inhumane. We need to stand up for human dignity. We need to tell the stories of what's happening to Palestinians and Palestinian Americans in the West Bank. It's just wrong.
In Kana, who's exploring a 2028 presidential run, says he felt helpless for 90 minutes when Israeli soldiers arrived and did not assist him. In a statement, Israel's military told NPR soldiers did not block the congressman's exit. According to the UN, more than 36,000 Palestinians have been displaced in the past two years
due to Israeli military action and settler violence. For NPR news, I'm almost there, Ramallah. In men's tennis, Yannik Sinner defended his title at Wimbledon today, beating French open winner Aleksandr's reveruv in four sets to win his second straight men's single title at his fifth Grand Slam title.
Now for the women, Linda Nuskova, beat Carolina Muchkova in an all-check women's final yesterday for her first Grand Slam title. I'm Janine Herbst NPR News in Washington.
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