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Graham’s death ignites GOP scramble for Senate seat as Trump hints he already has a favorite

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Sen. Lindsey Graham’s, R-S.C., sudden death from an undisclosed illness has triggered a two-pronged approach to replace him, and President Donald Trump will likely be a focal point in the process.
Graham’s passing overnight comes at a time when Republicans in the upper chamber need every vote they can get. The Senate GOP now holds a 52-seat majority, and with the timetable for Sen. Mitch McConnell’s, R-Ky., absence still unclear, that majority is now effectively 51 votes.
That will up the pressure, and drama, to find a replacement for the longtime South Carolina lawmaker.
LINDSEY GRAHAM, SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR WHO ROSE FROM SMALL-TOWN ROOTS TO GOP POWER BROKER, DIES AT 71
Sen. Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, speaks with reporters aboard Air Force One with President Donald Trump and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on the way back to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 4, 2026. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump, during an appearance on NBC’s «Meet the Press» on Sunday, said, «I have somebody that I think would be great.»
«But I don’t want to say it now because it’s just, it’s too soon with Lindsey,» Trump said. «I don’t wanna even talk about anybody, but I do have somebody that I think is really good.»
It’s a process guided by the Constitution and state law. The first step will require South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, a Republican, to appoint a replacement for Graham on a temporary basis.
McMaster, a close ally of Trump, can appoint a temporary replacement as soon as he wants. That pick will serve until the next special or general election.
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Fox News Digital did not immediately hear back from McMaster’s office on when he would make the announcement, or who he was considering for the seat.
Graham was already in-cycle running for a fifth term in the upper chamber, and he easily cruised to a primary victory early last month. That means that whoever McMaster taps would serve until the end of the year to finish off the remainder of Graham’s fourth term.
The second prong is finding his long-term successor.
The candidate filing period for that special election to win the GOP nomination opens July 21. The election is slated for Aug. 11, according to South Carolina law.
That race could see several familiar faces in South Carolina GOP politics jumping in, including McMaster himself, who is termed out as governor.
TRUMP’S ENDORSEMENT POWER FACES ANOTHER GOP TEST IN SOUTH CAROLINA AFTER ALAN WILSON ADVANCES

Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., departs the U.S. Capitol after a series of House votes on funding for Homeland Security and a War Powers resolution on Iran on March 5, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Trump heaped praise on McMaster, noting that he endorsed his first bid for the White House in 2016.
«Henry’s been a great governor, you know now he’s termed out, but he’s going to do the right thing,» Trump said. «I think Henry will be fantastic.»
There are six members of South Carolina’s GOP congressional delegation who could toss their hats into the mix. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., who recently lost a bid for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, is eyeing jumping into the special election.
A person familiar with Mace’s plans told Fox News Digital, «Congresswoman Mace is considering a bid to run.»
Then there’s Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., the longest-serving Republican member of the Palmetto State’s delegation. He quickly snuffed speculation about whether he’d leap into the fray.
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«I was grateful to speak with President Trump today reminiscing about our mutual friend, Senator Lindsey Graham,» Wilson said on X. «I assured him my goal is to remain in the House to keep his two-vote majority for the American people!!!»
Then there’s the remaining four: South Carolina Republican Reps. Ralph Norman, who also lost out on scoring the GOP nomination for governor, Russell Fry, William Timmons and Sheri Biggs, none of whom, so far, have signaled that they would jump into the battle for Graham’s seat.
Meanwhile, Pamela Evette, who Trump endorsed in the governor’s race but ultimately lost to GOP nominee and South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, could also be in the mix.
Fox News Digital did not immediately receive responses to requests for comment from each possible contender.
politics, lindsey graham, senate, donald trump, south carolina
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Murió el senador de EEUU Lindsey Graham, estrecho aliado de Donald Trump, tras una enfermedad breve

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La política exterior fue un foco para Graham
Graham fue presidente de los comités de Presupuesto y Judicial del Senado
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New Germany sex-crime figures reignite migration fight as exploitation probe expands

Report exposes scale of alleged UK grooming gang scandal
Fox News host Will Cain reports on a bombshell UK inquiry detailing shocking alleged child sex exploitation by organized grooming gangs in 149 local authority areas. The report reveals crimes committed for decades, with an estimated 250,000 victims nationwide.
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New German crime figures and an expanding investigation into an alleged sexual exploitation of teenage girls near the Nuremberg, Germany, central railway station are intensifying a broader European battle over migration, integration and whether officials have been too reluctant to confront patterns of organized sexual abuse.
Germany recorded 751 cases categorized as group rapes in 2025, according to the federal government’s response to a parliamentary inquiry submitted by the opposition Alternative für Deutschland party. All parties represented in the Bundestag German federal parliament may submit formal questions requiring government responses, a key tool through which opposition lawmakers scrutinize federal policy.
Police identified 1,087 suspects in the cases, including 509 German citizens and 578 non-German nationals. Syrians were the largest foreign-national group, with 110 suspects, followed by Afghans with 64, Iraqis with 46 and Turks with 44.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT SOCCER COACH WHO USED ALCOHOL AND DRUGS TO SEXUALLY ABUSE KIDS LEARNS FATE
Two defendants are holding folders in front of their faces as a screen, while a defense attorney is talking to the right defendant and judicial officers are standing behind the defendants at a trial in Freiburg, Germany, Thursday, July 23, 2020. (Philipp von Ditfurth/dpa via AP)
The government cautioned that «group rape» is not a separate criminal offense or standardized police category. Officials generated the figures by filtering recorded rape cases in which suspects were listed as not acting alone. The numbers represent suspects identified during police investigations, not people convicted in court.
The figures emerged as investigators in Nuremberg, Germany, pursued allegations that vulnerable girls were deliberately drawn into a network involving affection, gifts, narcotics and sexual exploitation.
Bavarian police said in May that men operating around the city’s main railway station allegedly approached girls from unstable or vulnerable backgrounds, initially offering them attention, clothing or cosmetics. Investigators said some were later given hard drugs, including crystal meth, and that their resulting dependency was allegedly exploited to obtain sexual acts or other «services.»
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Protesters gather before a party convention of Alternative for Germany, or AfD in Erfurt, Germany, July 4, 2026. (Ebrahim Noroozi/The Associated Press )
The investigation, known as EKO Kajal, has continued to expand. Police said Tuesday that ten suspects were being held in pretrial detention in cases involving alleged sexual offenses against girls and young women and the distribution of drugs or medication to minors.
In the latest arrests, police alleged that a 21-year-old Syrian man raped two girls, ages 15 and 18, in a Nuremberg, Germany, apartment after they were given narcotics by a 40-year-old Syrian man. Both men were detained, but the accusations remain allegations and have not been adjudicated.
Emma Schubart, a research fellow at the London-based Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital that the Nuremberg, Germany, allegations bear similarities to grooming-gang cases uncovered in Britain, where girls were plied with drugs and alcohol before being repeatedly abused by groups of men.
«It’s a severe failure in both countries,» Schubart said, arguing that the problem begins with insufficient screening and continues with inadequate integration after migrants arrive.
«The first step that both authorities in the U.K. and in Germany really are not doing is screening migrants effectively,» she said. «But then, once the migrants are already here, the integration policy is completely lacking.»
Schubart said the isolation of some immigrant communities can contribute to «ghettoization» and create environments in which criminal networks operate with limited scrutiny or cooperation with authorities.
She also challenged the argument that disparities in some sexual-offense statistics can be explained primarily by poverty.
POLYGAMOUS SECT LEADER CONVICTED ON STATE CHARGES AFTER GIRLS FOUND IN UNVENTILATED TRAILER

A supporter wearing a plastic policeman’s helmet and holding fake money criticises the way the police dealt with the grooming gang scandal on Jan. 29, 2022, in Telford, England. (Martin Pope/Getty Images)
«Socioeconomic factors matter, but they absolutely do not fully explain the disparities,» Schubart said. «Native Germans from similar socioeconomic backgrounds absolutely do not show equivalent rates in group sexual offending.»
Schubart said she viewed the apparent intersection between drugs and sexual exploitation as an especially important parallel with Britain.
«In the U.K. and in Germany, it’s a very similar pattern where it’s basically drug trafficking that also involves sex trafficking,» she said. «These drug-trafficking networks and cells operate across the country, not just in those cities where we see the crimes playing out.»
Britain has spent years reckoning with grooming scandals in places including Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford and Oxford, England, where official reviews found that police, social workers and local authorities repeatedly missed or ignored evidence that vulnerable children were being systematically abused.
Baroness Louise Casey’s national audit, published by the British government in June 2025, concluded that inconsistent definitions, incomplete records and failures to collect ethnicity data made it impossible to establish the full national scale of group-based child sexual exploitation. It nevertheless found evidence of the disproportionate representation of Pakistani-heritage suspects in some local datasets and cases, while warning against extrapolating those findings to the entire country.
The British government later backed an independent inquiry intended to examine failures or obstruction by police, councils and other public bodies in relevant local areas.
Schubart argued that officials in both countries have sometimes avoided discussing offenders’ backgrounds out of concern that doing so could damage relations with minority communities.
«In the U.K., it’s usually the phrase ‘community relations,’» she said. «There’s a huge effort to not threaten community relations.»
Germany’s ifo Institute reported in February 2025 that its analysis of district-level police data from 2018 through 2023 found no correlation between a rising foreign population and local crime rates, including in areas receiving more refugees.
«We find no correlation between an increasing share of foreigners in a district and the local crime rate,» ifo researcher Jean-Victor Alipour said when the findings were released. «The same applies in particular to refugees.» Researchers said differences in suspect rates can be influenced by age, sex, urban concentration and other demographic factors.
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A woman poses with a sign as members of the public queue to enter a council meeting during a protest calling for justice for victims of sexual abuse and grooming gangs, outside the council offices at City Centre on Jan. 20, 2025, in Oldham, England. (Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
Germany’s Syrian population also plays a significant role in sectors facing severe labor shortages.
The German Medical Association reported that 7,959 Syrian citizens were working as physicians in Germany at the end of 2025, making Syrians the country’s largest group of foreign doctors.
The competing evidence presents European governments with a difficult test: investigating organized exploitation and demographic patterns without political hesitation, while avoiding the suggestion that hundreds of suspects define millions of immigrants.
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Una empresaria fingió durante años que su hija era su hermana y terminó acusada de asesinarla: el caso que conmocionó a India

Durante años, nadie puso en duda la historia que contaba Indrani Mukerjea. Era empresaria, figura conocida del ambiente mediático de India y siempre estaba presente en los eventos más exclusivos de Mumbai. Ella aseguraba que dos jóvenes que la acompañaban con frecuencia eran sus hermanos menores.
Entre ellos estaba Sheena Bora, una mujer de 24 años a quien presentaba públicamente como su hermana, aunque en realidad era su hija biológica.
En 2012, Sheena desapareció sin dejar rastros. Su entorno comenzó a buscarla, pero la explicación que recibían siempre era la misma: se había ido por decisión propia, quería empezar una nueva vida y no deseaba mantener contacto con nadie.
Durante más de tres años, esa versión fue aceptada por familiares, amigos e incluso por las autoridades. Sin embargo, en 2015 una confesión inesperada destapó uno de los casos criminales más impactantes de India y convirtió a Indrani Mukerjea en la principal acusada por el asesinato de su propia hija. Indrani Mukerjea junto a Sheena Bora, su hija, aunque ella la presentaba públicamente como su hermana. (Foto: The Indian Express)
Antes de que el caso ocupara las portadas de todos los medios, Indrani Mukerjea era considerada una mujer exitosa. Había nacido en el estado de Assam y, tras mudarse a Mumbai, construyó una carrera vinculada al mundo de los negocios y los medios de comunicación.
Su vida cambió cuando se casó con Peter Mukerjea, uno de los ejecutivos más influyentes de la televisión india. Juntos formaban una de las parejas más conocidas de la alta sociedad del país y frecuentaban empresarios, celebridades y dirigentes políticos. Sin embargo, detrás de esa imagen de éxito existía un secreto que muy pocas personas conocían.
Cuando era muy joven, Indrani había tenido dos hijos: Sheena Bora y Mikhail Bora. Según la investigación, durante años decidió ocultar ese vínculo y comenzó a presentarlos como sus hermanos menores. La versión fue aceptada por gran parte de su círculo social y se mantuvo durante décadas.
Indrani se casó con Peter Mukerjea, uno de los ejecutivos más importantes de la televisión india. (Foto: Hindustan Times)
Sheena creció creyendo que debía guardar ese secreto. Mientras construía su propia vida en Mumbai, trabajaba en una empresa y mantenía una relación con Rahul Mukerjea, hijo de Peter de un matrimonio anterior.
Ese noviazgo generó fuertes conflictos dentro de la familia. Mientras Rahul y Sheena sostenían que querían formalizar la relación, Indrani se oponía rotundamente. De acuerdo con la acusación, la posibilidad de que saliera a la luz que Sheena era en realidad su hija podía derrumbar la imagen que había construido durante años.
La desaparición
El 24 de abril de 2012 fue la última vez que Sheena Bora fue vista con vida. Según la reconstrucción realizada por la fiscalía, ese día la joven se reunió con Indrani después de recibir una invitación para cenar. Horas más tarde dejó de contestar mensajes y llamadas.
En los días siguientes comenzaron a llegar correos electrónicos y mensajes desde las cuentas de Sheena. En ellos aseguraba que había decidido mudarse, terminar su relación con Rahul y alejarse definitivamente de todos. Pero su novio nunca creyó esa explicación.
El hombre insistió durante meses en que algo extraño había pasado, ya que el contenido de los mensajes no coincidía con la forma habitual de escribir de su pareja. También sostuvo que nadie había podido volver a verla personalmente. Sheena Bora junto a su novio, Rahul Mukerjea. (Foto: The Hindu)
A pesar de sus sospechas, la desaparición no avanzó demasiado. La versión de que Sheena se había marchado voluntariamente terminó imponiéndose y el caso quedó prácticamente olvidado.
La confesión
Todo cambió en agosto de 2015, cuando la policía detuvo a Shyamvar Rai, el chofer que había trabajado para la familia Mukerjea. Inicialmente fue arrestado por otro hecho, pero durante su indagatoria realizó una confesión inesperada.
Según declaró, había participado del asesinato de Sheena Bora junto con Indrani Mukerjea y su entonces esposo, Sanjeev Khanna.
De acuerdo con su relato, aquella noche Sheena fue drogada y posteriormente estrangulada dentro de un auto. Después, el cuerpo fue trasladado hasta una zona boscosa del distrito de Raigad, a varios kilómetros de Mumbai, donde fue incendiado para intentar eliminar cualquier evidencia.
El momento de la detención del chofer cuyo testimonio provocó un giro en la investigación. (Foto: Hindustan Times)
Los investigadores comprobaron que en 2012 se habían encontrado restos óseos calcinados en ese mismo lugar, aunque en ese momento nunca habían podido ser identificados correctamente.
Tras la confesión del chofer, esos restos fueron sometidos nuevamente a distintos estudios y pasaron a ser considerados una pieza clave de la investigación.
Pocos días después de la confesión de Shyamvar Rai, Indrani Mukerjea fue detenida y acusada formalmente por homicidio, secuestro, destrucción de pruebas y conspiración criminal.
También fueron arrestados Sanjeev Khanna, segundo esposo de Indrani y señalado como uno de los participantes del crimen, y posteriormente Peter Mukerjea, acusado por los investigadores de haber tenido conocimiento del plan. Sin embargo, años después Peter obtuvo la libertad cuando la Justicia consideró que no existían pruebas suficientes para mantenerlo detenido mientras continúa el proceso.
Un juicio que todavía no terminó
La principal hipótesis sostiene que Indrani buscaba impedir que se conociera públicamente que Sheena era su hija biológica y no su hermana, un secreto que había mantenido durante años y que podía afectar tanto su imagen pública como su vida personal.
Los investigadores también analizaron posibles conflictos económicos y disputas familiares, además del rechazo que Indrani tenía hacia la relación entre Sheena y Rahul Mukerjea.
Mukerjea fue imputada por el homicidio de su hija Sheena Bora. (Foto: India TV News)
Para la fiscalía, el crimen fue cuidadosamente planificado y tuvo como objetivo silenciar definitivamente a la joven antes de que revelara la verdad sobre su vínculo familiar.
La defensa de Indrani, en cambio, negó desde el comienzo todas las acusaciones y sostuvo que las pruebas presentadas por la fiscalía no alcanzan para demostrar su responsabilidad.
Leé también: La asesinaron mientras caminaba con su hijo de dos años: el verdadero culpable fue identificado más de una década después
Desde su detención en 2015, el expediente avanzó lentamente debido a la gran cantidad de testigos y pruebas incorporadas a la causa.
En 2022, luego de pasar más de seis años en prisión preventiva, la Corte Suprema de la India le concedió la libertad bajo fianza al considerar que el juicio todavía estaba lejos de finalizar.
La decisión no implicó una absolución ni modificó los cargos en su contra. Indrani continúa imputada por el asesinato de Sheena Bora y debe presentarse ante la Justicia mientras sigue el proceso judicial.
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