He died from “a brief and sudden illness” on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.Senator Lindsey Graham speaking in Spartanburg, S.C., on June 30.
South Carolina law suggests his death triggers an Aug. 11 special Republican primary election, and the state’s governor can appoint a replacement to serve out the rest of his term, through early January.Senator Lindsey Graham at the Capitol in Washington in January.
The senator had sometimes struggled to maintain support from his party’s most right-wing voters. But leaders paid tribute to his wit and stalwart support of South Carolina.Senator Lindsey Graham in January.
Mr. Graham’s sudden death on Saturday prompted a wave of tributes for an outsize and often divisive figure in U.S. foreign policy for two decades.Senator Lindsey Graham last year.
With much of their leadership killed in the war, Iran’s conservatives have sought to fill the void and intensify the fight against the United States.Mourners in Mashhad, Iran, during Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral, on Thursday.
Operating out of a Tokyo high-rise, a military intelligence unit finds the high-tech equipment that Russia needs to wage war.The Aeroflot office in Toranomon Kotohira Tower in Tokyo. Japan’s weak espionage laws and flourishing high-tech industry have made it a crucial base for the Russian war effort
With its mass-produced and inexpensive A.I. powered war machines, the German start-up Helsing SE illustrates a profound shift in military spending.Helsing SE, which makes autonomous jets and drones, is the most valuable A.I. defense start-up in Europe.
The Iran and Ukraine wars underline the common limits of military force in achieving political ends, but also the differences between a dug-in Russian president and a vacillating American one.President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia both appear convinced that their own war is just w
The F.B.I. director spent about eight hours at the White House Friday focused on the effort, which led to the subpoenaing of several Times reporters who wrote about the security of Air Force One.Kash Patel’s role in the leak investigation reflects a further dismantling of the wall that had separated
President Trump has wrongly attributed the $2 billion windfall he gained during his second term to a hot stock market and claimed that he was the only president to donate his salary.President Trump’s most lucrative ventures seemed to intersect directly with his administration’s policies like cryptoc
Mr. Araujo was a father, a husband and a business owner who had moved to the United States 35 years ago from Mexico.A makeshift memorial for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo near the site where he was killed in Houston.
They won Democratic state legislative primaries in Buffalo and Syracuse, showing how the party’s messaging and ground game can work outside New York City.Adam Bojak, a democratic socialist candidate, won a three-way Democratic primary for the New York State Assembly in the Buffalo area.
Age seemed to be the predominant factor in the Democratic Socialists of America’s primary wins in House races in New York City.Mayor Zohran Mamdani helped elevate the candidacies of three leftist candidates who won House primaries last month. From left to right, Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, Mr. Mamda
A bitter struggle between Maricopa County’s Republican-dominated Board of Supervisors and a Trump-allied official over control of elections has ramifications far beyond Greater Phoenix.A show of support for the Maricopa County recorder, Justin Heap, during a special meeting of the county’s Board of
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A writer reflects on the healing powers of trying new things.Senator Lindsey Graham in 2024.
Afghanistan’s leader has exerted full control over a city that once enjoyed looser social norms, even under Taliban rule.Women at a street market in Herat, Afghanistan, in 2023.
