- South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has died at 71 following a sudden illness.
- The U.S. conducted retaliatory airstrikes on Iranian coastal positions after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz.
- ICE agents fatally shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston; conflicting accounts emerge o
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