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Dan Ronan
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dan Ronan. President Trump is remembering Senator Lindsey Graham as a great politician and a skilled deal maker. Trump spoke on NBC's Meet the Press this morning. The South Carolina Republican died last night in Washington at age 71. NPR's Eric McDaniel reports.
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Eric McDaniel
Trump said he spoke to Graham by phone Saturday night after the senator returned from a trip abroad. He remembered the South Carolinian as a loyal ally who fiercely advocated for the president's agenda despite an acrimonious 2016 Republican primary fight. Here's Trump speaking to NBC's Kristen Welker this morning.
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Donald Trump
This man was a great politician. He really got it.
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Eric McDaniel
Graham's temporary replacement will be appointed by South Carolina's Republican governor and serve for the rest of the year. A new Republican nominee will be elected in August and will compete for a six year term in November's general election against Democratic nominee Annie Andrews in the ruby red State. Eric McDaniel, NPR News.
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Dan Ronan
President Trump says he's ordered the military to conduct wide scale bombing against Iran should Iran assassinate. However, there's no automatic process that allows the death of a president to trigger a military attack, and that decision would be up to Vice President J.D.
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Donald Trump
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Dan Ronan
While not addressing the specific concern on ABC's this Week, the US ambassador to the UN, Mike Waltz, did discuss those type of plots that he says are concerning to President Trump.
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Mike Waltz
They have operatives here in the United States. Plots are ongoing, but our intelligence community, the FBI, our law enforcement entities are absolutely on top of it.
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Dan Ronan
On Saturday, Iran's new supreme leader vowed to avenge the death of his father, who was killed by airstrikes in the first hour of the war. 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 Kaloki reports.
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Michael Kaloki
In a statement, the WHO's Director, General Tedros Gebreyesus, 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 or were at risk of being affected by the disease. Meanwhile, the UN's World Food Program warned today that the outbreak in Congo could lead to a sharp increase in severe hunger in the country. For NPR News, I'm Michael Kaloki in Nairobi.
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Dan Ronan
Even as the US and Iran continued to exchange military strikes. President Trump today said the critical Strait of Hormuz remains open to commercial traffic. Before Trump's call to NBC, Iran said the strait had been closed for traffic. You're listening to NPR News. The top ranked men's tennis player in the world, Italy's 24 year old Jannik Sinner, is the champion at Wimbledon in London, winning his fifth career Grand Slam title. Sinner also captured the title last year at the All England Club. He defeated the number two player in the world, Alexander Zerev, in a match that took three hours and 46 minutes, making this the second longest win in his career. More university students are sticking with it. A new report finds a higher number of students are remaining enrolled in college after their first semester. NPR's Alyssa Nadworny has the story.
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Alyssa Nadworny
The National Student Clearinghouse Research center tracks persistence and retention to see if students who head to college actually stay there on the path to a degree. More than 2.6 million students started college in the fall of 2024 and and the report found more than 77% of them returned to school for a second year. That's up slightly from the prior year's data. There were also increases in the outcomes for black and Hispanic students. They saw decade high rates at which they returned to college for the next fall. Racial gaps still persist with white and Asian students returning to college at higher rates. Alyssa Nadworny, NPR News.
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Dan Ronan
A heat wave is expected across much of the country this week. Two thirds of the nation could be impacted. Temperatures are forecast to be 15 to 25 degrees hotter than normal from the southwest of the grain Plains before the heat moves to the east coast later in the week, temperatures could be broken across the country. This is NPR News support for npr.
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