News Summary at 10:03 a.m. EDT
Sen. Lindsey Graham has died at age 71 after a brief and unexpected illness, according to his office. The South Carolina Republican, a close ally of President Donald Trump, was known for pushing a strong U.S. foreign policy and later became a staunch Trump supporter after initially opposing him and running against him in 2016. Graham had just returned from Ukraine, where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and he announced an agreement on Friday with the Trump administration to move forward on a Russia sanctions package. Zelenskyy said Graham visited Ukraine 10 times during Russia’s full-scale invasion. The AP also reported concurrent developments involving U.S. actions tied to an incident in the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s retaliatory strikes across multiple Middle East countries.






