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U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham died Saturday evening after a "brief and sudden illness," his office said in statement posted on social media. The office did not provide any additional details about the South Carolina Republican, who was 71 years old. "Senator Graham's family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period," the statement said. Graham was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002 and was running for a fifth term.

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The board game Monopoly has always taught some important economic lessons: The benefits of owning real estate. The profit potential of railroad mergers. The value of a get-out-of-jail-free card. Now a special edition of the board game is teaching a new lesson—about how hard it is to make things in the USA. The game is being marketed by the WS Game Company, which produces most of its high-end board games in China, just like almost every other toy maker.

An art exhibition by Victor "Marka27" Quiñonez, whose work comments on issues facing U.S. Latinos, seemed like a natural fit for the campus of the University of North Texas in Denton, north of Dallas. Nearly a quarter of the students are Hispanic and the show focused on Quiñonez's dual cultural identity, as someone born in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and raised in East Dallas, Texas.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This was not the first time Argentina had come to the brink in this FIFA World Cup. First, the defending champions needed extra time to escape Cape Verde, the Cinderella story of this tournament. Then, they needed a miraculous comeback to overcome a 0-2 deficit to Egypt in the Round of 16.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States attacked Iran early Sunday morning over an Iranian attack on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, setting the container ship ablaze and forcing its crew to abandon it. Iran apparently responded with strikes targeting Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. The strait has become the key sticking point in any further negotiations between Iran and the United States to find a permanent end to the war that began back on Feb. 28.

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advocate for a more muscular U.S. foreign policy abroad, died Saturday evening after a "brief and sudden illness," his office said in a statement posted on social media. He was 71.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — England has done it again. Escaping with an extra-time quarterfinal victory 2-1 over Norway at the World Cup to keep their dreams alive of a second tournament title. But it wasn't easy. It was a typical South Florida July afternoon: hot, muggy and just generally unpleasant. At kickoff, it was 90 F — and meteorologists warned of a dangerous heat index of 108 degrees. Though it felt even hotter than that.

Updated July 11, 2026 at 4:40 PM CDT A film adaptation of Azar Nafisi's critically praised, worldwide bestselling memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran, is now in theatres. The film, directed by Eran Riklis, follows a group of women meeting clandestinely in revolutionary Iran during the mid-1990s, to read forbidden books. Gathering in Nafisi's home, they read Western classics, such as Madame Bovary, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and Lolita.

The New York Times says several of its journalists have been subpoenaed by the Department of Justice over their reporting on Air Force One, describing it as a "brazen act." On Wednesday, the newspaper published an anonymously sourced story that the Secret Service urged President Trump to leave the recent NATO summit in Turkey on an older version of Air Force One instead of the Boeing 747 donated by Qatar last year because of security concerns.