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"President Trump is recommending that Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's younger sister
“serve out the rest of her siblings' term.”
Trump's weighing in is South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster is expected to announce a decision on who should fill the Senate seat left vacant after Graham's unexpected death over the weekend. Here's NPR's Frank Ordonias. "President Trump, who was very close to Graham, has been giving interviews praising the
long time South Carolina Senator. The president made his request on social media calling it a "fabulous tribute to Lindsey." Trump said Graham loved his sister, Darlene Graham, nor Done, dearly.
Graham, who never married, was very close with his younger sister.
He adopted her after their parents died, so she could receive his military benefits. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster will make the appointment to fill the seat until January, Graham, who was 71 years old, died suddenly on Saturday night while campaigning for a fifth term. Several prominent South Carolina Republicans have already expressed interest in running
for the seat. Franco. Ordonias. NPR News.
“"Federal agents are on the scene of a federal immigration enforcement fatal shooting”
in Maine." Senator Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, says he was informed by Homeland
Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullin that a man in his 20s who was ordered to leave
the U.S. had weaponized as vehicle when the shooting happened. The encounter ignited protests within hours. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he's beginning a campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court. The world's only standing war crimes tribunal.
NPR's Michelle Kellerman reports Rubio calls the ICC a threat to U.S. sovereignty. In an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, and in an online video, Secretary Rubio accuses the International Criminal Court, based in the Hague of Waging a War against the U.S. "Not with bullets or missiles, but with statutes, compacts, and the force of so-called international law."
Rubio says U.S. service members or border patrol agents could be at risk for prosecution, but the court was set up more than two decades ago to prosecute war crimes in genocide in countries that don't or won't hold their personnel to account. The Trump administration imposed sanctions to stop an ICC investigation into Afghanistan, and now Rubio says he will work to dismantle what he calls the Court's threat to U.S.
sovereignty. Michelle Kellerman and B.R. News, the State Department. Jurassic Park star Sam Neal has died, a statement posted to the New Zealand Act or Social Media Page says he died in Monday and Sydney at the age of 78. Neal's award-winning career spans several decades, and memorable roles, including in
P.C. Blinders, the piano and perhaps most famously Steven Spielberg's classic Jurassic Park. Neal disclosed a few years ago he was diagnosed with a rare type of non-Hochkin lymphoma. This is N.P.R. News. Taker traffic's down to a crawl in the straight-of-harmews, and P.R. Scott Horsley reports
on how that's affecting energy prices. Continued fighting in and around the straight-of-harmews has pushed oil prices higher. Interpolace is the average price of regular gas in the U.S. is now $3.87 a gallon. That's up about 8 cents from a week ago, but 21 cents lower than this time last month. Gas lane consumption in the U.S. has inched up despite the high price, but global demand
for petroleum products is expected to fall this year for the first time since the
pandemic downturn six years ago. Scott Horsley and P.R. News, Washington. The American Red Cross declared a national blood emergency today because of a concerning decline in blood donations. And P.R. has dropped stine has more.
"Donations have been falling since the end of May, causing the national blood supply to drop by about 25% by the end of June. Blood donations often decline this time of year because regular routines get disrupted by some retrieval, and blood drives that places like schools and colleges go on high aiders at the same time demand for blood increases because of a spike in injuries from
car crashes and more people participating in activities like biking, hiking, and boating.
“And that's what's happening again this year.”
The Red Cross says there's a deficit of about 3,500 units of blood each week, Rob Stein and P.R. News." An investigation is underway into a major fire to popular pub in Bangkok over the weekend authority say at least 27 people died, dozens more were injured, it's N.P.R. News." "This is our glass of the American Life.
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