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Lindsey Graham’s sister appointed to Senate as GOP rushes to protect fragile majority

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Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was appointed to fill her brother’s Senate seat after a push from President Donald Trump.

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«It’s my honor to ask his little sister, Darlene Graham, to finish his work for him now,» South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said at a ceremony on Monday afternoon.

McMaster, a close Trump ally, appointed Nordone nearly 48 hours after her brother and longtime lawmaker suddenly died from an aortic dissection.

McMaster’s pick comes after Trump pushed for Graham’s «wonderful sister» Nordone to get the job.

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«This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly,» Trump wrote in a post to Truth Social on Monday morning.

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Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Darline Graham Nordone to fill the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s seat on Monday, July 13, 2026. (Fox News)

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Others were also initially considered, including Lt. Gov. Pam Evette, who Trump endorsed in her failed bid to clinch the GOP nomination for governor, former Rep. Trey Gowdy and former Sen. Jim DeMint, sources told Fox News Digital.

Her appointment fills the seat through Jan. 3, while voters decide in November who will hold the seat for the next six-year term. 

At this point, it’s unclear if Nordone, 62, would consider running for a full six-year term, and there’s already private jockeying to run in the special election, set for Aug. 11, to secure the GOP nomination in the Palmetto State, with Reps. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., and Ralph Norman, R-S.C., both eyeing a bid. 

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Graham’s death narrowed Republicans’ Senate majority and added pressure to keep every GOP vote available, especially with Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., still being treated after a fall and pneumonia.

Nordone, who has largely kept out of the public eye, is married to Larry Nordone and has two daughters. She has worked with the South Carolina Commission for the Blind (SCCB) as commissioner, according to the organization’s 2026-27 budget. The SCCB provides services aimed at helping blind and low-vision South Carolina residents gain employment, independence and self-sufficiency.

In the past, she has described a personal closeness with Lindsey Graham, having been raised by him after the death of their mother when she was just 11. 

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«I have always looked up to Lindsey. He’s just always been there for me as long as I can remember. If I fell down and scraped my knee, Lindsey was the one I ran to,» she recounted in a 2014 campaign ad.

Nordone has not previously held elected office. She will become South Carolina’s first female senator.

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Former Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, pictured alongside his sister, Darline Graham Nordone, right.

Former Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, pictured alongside his sister, Darline Graham Nordone, right. (William B. Plowman/NBC via Getty Images; Rainier Ehrhardt/Associated Press)

Following Trump’s endorsement, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), also put his support behind Nordone on Monday morning ahead of the announcement. 

«Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, would be a fantastic pick to serve out the remainder of the Senate term,» Scott wrote in a post to X.

«After speaking with Darline, there is no one better who understands Lindsey’s love for family, our state and our country.»

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McMaster also described speaking with Darline ahead of her appointment as well as with Trump.

«After we spoke on the phone in the wee hours of Sunday morning and you agreed to serve through tears, I had wondered what you would say and I was humbled by your quickness to see the duty that you had to serve. And I called the president afterwards, and he thought it was a great idea,» McMaster said. 

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., also voiced his support for Nordone. 

He told CNN Monday afternoon that he had already spoken with both Nordone and McMaster the day before, and believed that tapping the longtime lawmaker’s sister to fill his spot, «in my view, makes a lot of sense.»

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«I think, in many respects, it would be a way of extending Lindsey’s legacy here, and certainly something that, if that’s what they decide to end up doing, I think there’d be a lot of support for,» Thune said. 

The filing period for a special primary election begins on July 21, with the special election to follow on Aug. 11. A runoff, if needed, would be held Aug. 25, leaving the candidate just two months to campaign before the Nov. 3 general election.

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Rusia y Ucrania luchan ahora por el control del espacio aéreo: el futuro de la guerra se juega en el cielo

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Mientras el frente en Ucrania se solidifica en un sangriento punto muerto, la trayectoria futura de la guerra se va definiendo en los cielos.

Esta guerra aérea es una contienda que lo abarca todo, desde unos pocos metros por encima de las líneas de árboles calcinadas hasta satélites en órbita terrestre baja. Su impacto físico queda grabado en el paisaje con el fuego que lanzan misiles y drones, aunque gran parte de la lucha permanece oculta, en la carrera por desplegar inteligencia artificial y controlar un amplio espectro de ondas de radio.

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Ucrania está utilizando drones explosivos para atacar instalaciones petroleras rusas desde Siberia hasta San Petersburgo y puertos rusos desde el Mar Báltico hasta el Mar Negro. Día tras día, los almacenes del mayor minorista en línea de Rusia arden en llamas, y Crimea, ocupada por Rusia, se sume en la oscuridad . Ucrania ataca a Rusia con mucha más frecuencia que al principio de la guerra, incluyendo ataques con misiles de crucero contra objetivos militares a cientos de kilómetros del frente.

Al mismo tiempo, Rusia está batiendo récords mensuales con sus propios ataques aéreos, aprovechando las deficiencias de las debilitadas defensas aéreas ucranianas con resultados letales.

En julio, Moscú lanzó al menos 126 misiles balísticos, la cifra más alta en tiempos de guerra, según un análisis del New York Times basado en datos de la Fuerza Aérea Ucraniana. Alrededor de 400 civiles murieron el mes pasado en los ataques rusos, que incluyeron misiles de crucero y drones, convirtiéndolo en el mes más mortífero desde abril de 2022.

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Antes del amanecer del miércoles, al menos 17 personas más murieron en Kiev, la capital ucraniana, en un ataque que incluyó 24 misiles balísticos y cuatro misiles hipersónicos. Según la Fuerza Aérea Ucraniana, ninguno de esos misiles fue derribado.

Más allá del costo humano, los ataques rusos han obligado a Ucrania a suspender envíos vitales de cereales y acero desde sus puertos marítimos. Los ataques también han devastado una infraestructura ya maltrecha, lo que ha generado temores de que el país se enfrente a otro invierno con escasez de calefacción y electricidad.

El conflicto entre Rusia y Ucrania es, en esencia, dos guerras en una.

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Una de las guerras se libra sin descanso entre soldados de infantería y operadores de drones desde escondites a lo largo de los 1287 kilómetros del frente. Rusia sigue intentando capturar territorio ucraniano, a costa de la vida de decenas de miles de soldados cada mes, y avanza lentamente en la región oriental del Donbás. Ucrania, por su parte, sigue defendiendo su territorio con un ejército inferior en número e intenta recuperar terreno donde puede, incluso en el sur.

La otra guerra llega en oleadas desde el cielo. Va dirigida contra ciudades lejanas y emplazamientos militares en ambos países, a menudo en la oscuridad de la noche, y se ha vuelto más letal tanto para ucranianos como para rusos.

Los objetivos de estos ataques aéreos van más allá de lo puramente militar. Kiev busca agravar el impacto económico del Kremlin, hacer que la guerra afecte directamente a los rusos y obligar al presidente Vladimir Putin a aceptar un alto el fuego en condiciones que él no imponga. Para Moscú, se trata de la continuación de una campaña que lleva años intentando minar la resistencia ucraniana y hacer que las ciudades sean inhabitables.

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La batalla aérea se está intensificando a medida que ambos bandos producen armas cada vez más innovadoras y a mayor escala.

Ataques con misiles balísticos de Ucrania contra Rusia

Rusia está equipando drones económicos, inspirados en el Shahed iraní, con motores a reacción; lanzando una constelación de satélites para guiar sus armas; y desplegando misiles de crucero de bajo costo que cubren la brecha entre los drones de ataque lentos y los misiles estratégicos avanzados. Aviones de combate rusos disparan bombas planeadoras guiadas por satélite que arrasan sistemáticamente pueblos y ciudades.

Ucrania está desarrollando un arsenal en constante evolución de drones e híbridos de misiles y drones con sistemas avanzados de navegación y comunicación que les permiten atacar con mayor precisión en todo el territorio ruso. El presidente Volodímir Zelenski se ha comprometido a acelerar los ataques aéreos mientras Ucrania prueba sus primeros misiles balísticos de fabricación nacional.

Ambos países están utilizando nuevos métodos para resistir las interferencias electrónicas y empleando sistemas autónomos que dirigen las armas hacia sus objetivos sin intervención humana.

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A medida que Rusia y Ucrania amplían sus arsenales ofensivos, sus defensas aéreas tienen dificultades para mantenerse al día.

Ucrania se enfrenta a una grave escasez de misiles interceptores Patriot de diseño estadounidense, la única defensa del país contra los misiles balísticos rusos.

Un bombero trabaja en el lugar de una zona residencial afectada por ataques con drones y misiles rusos, en la región de Lviv, Ucrania. Foto Reuters

Zelenski ha instruido a sus diplomáticos para que presionen con mayor ahínco a los aliados para que suministren más misiles Patriot. Sin embargo, la disminución de las reservas mundiales, consecuencia de la guerra en Irán, ha dificultado la tarea, y el presidente Trump ha dado marcha atrás en su promesa de permitir que Ucrania produzca misiles Patriot en los próximos años.

Para Rusia, uno de los principales desafíos es defender un vasto territorio que fue una ventaja en guerras pasadas, pero que ahora se ha convertido en una desventaja debido a la producción masiva de drones de ataque de largo alcance por parte de Ucrania. Al adaptar software, hardware y tácticas, Kiev ha abierto brechas en la que fuera la red de defensa aérea más robusta del mundo.

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Anatolii Khrapchynskyi, oficial de la reserva de la Fuerza Aérea Ucraniana y analista militar, afirmó que antes de que los rusos lanzaran su invasión a gran escala en 2022, confiaban en la disuasión que les proporcionaba su arsenal nuclear. Según él, las defensas aéreas «solo podían cubrir alrededor del 40 por ciento de sus instalaciones militares estratégicas».

Cuando la invasión se estancó y Rusia no logró establecer la superioridad aérea, los comandantes rusos se apresuraron a acercar sistemas defensivos como el Pantsir y el Tor a Ucrania. Si bien esto protegió la línea del frente, dejó sin protección a las bases militares y los centros industriales del interior de Rusia.

Según los analistas, ahora cada lanzador y sistema de radar destruido obliga a Moscú a elegir entre salvaguardar el frente o defender el interior del país.

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«El desafío de Rusia es fundamentalmente geográfico», afirmó Justin Bronk, investigador sénior del Royal United Services Institute, un centro de estudios sobre seguridad con sede en Londres. «Cuando Ucrania obliga a Rusia a retirar sus sistemas del frente para proteger ciudades o refinerías en la retaguardia, se crean brechas por todas partes».

Si bien Rusia aún cuenta con una sólida protección aérea, la presión ha fracturado el escudo del país en defensas aisladas, lo que Ucrania está aprovechando con ataques tanto en el interior de Rusia como más cerca del frente para socavar la logística rusa.

El ataque a la refinería central de petróleo de Moscú en junio, que provocó una densa columna de humo negro sobre la capital rusa, demostró que incluso el principal bastión del Kremlin podía ser vulnerado.

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Según los analistas, Kiev amplió recientemente sus objetivos para incluir los almacenes del mayor minorista en línea de Rusia, Wildberries, lo que obligó a Moscú a replantearse nuevamente la forma en que distribuye sus defensas.

Para tapar las brechas que van surgiendo, Rusia ha recurrido a soluciones provisionales como la instalación de baterías Pantsir en edificios altos para obtener un mejor campo de visión y el despliegue de buques de guerra para proteger regiones del norte como Murmansk.

Los comandantes ucranianos también señalaron un cambio en su propia doctrina. En lugar de esperar la aprobación centralizada, los pilotos están autorizados a desviarse de los objetivos de la misión planificada si detectan una oportunidad para atacar un objetivo prioritario, como un radar o un lanzador ruso.

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Donde Ucrania no puede competir con Rusia es en su escala industrial. Moscú produce miles de drones de ataque estandarizados, señuelos y misiles de crucero. Los servicios de inteligencia ucranianos estiman que Rusia produce alrededor de 120 misiles balísticos al mes, superando la producción total de interceptores Patriot de Estados Unidos.

El arsenal ruso está siendo reforzado con misiles procedentes de Corea del Norte, según afirmaron funcionarios ucranianos, citando como prueba los restos recogidos tras un ataque perpetrado el jueves pasado en la ciudad central de Kryvyi Rih, en el que murió una familia de 10 personas.

Moscú también está desarrollando sus propios drones interceptores, que Ucrania ha utilizado con gran eficacia, y aún mantiene en servicio un número significativo de sofisticadas baterías de defensa aérea S-400 y S-300.

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Fundamentalmente, el sector industrial de defensa de Rusia cuenta con el respaldo de cadenas de suministro que han resistido las sanciones, aprovechando la microelectrónica extranjera y la tecnología china de doble uso para adaptar rápidamente sus sistemas.

La estrategia de Rusia se basa en un cálculo frío: que puede agotar las defensas de Ucrania antes de que su propia red colapse.

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Crowded Russian beach descends into chaos after alleged Ukrainian drone incident kills 7, including 4 children

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Vacationers were sent scrambling for safety Monday after a projectile struck a crowded beach in a Russian Black Sea resort town, killing seven people, including four children, and injuring dozens more, officials said.

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Video footage captured the incident in the village of Arkhipo-Osipovka near Gelendzhik, where the beach was packed with visitors at the time of the strike.

The Russian Mission in Geneva said in a post on X that the «bloody attack» was carried out by a drone launched by Ukraine, accusing Kyiv of targeting civilians.

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A projectile flies overhead near Arkhipo-Osipovka, Russia, on Monday. (Social media via Reuters)

«The attack targeted civilian infrastructure. Emergency and special services are working at the crash site,» regional Gov. Veniamin Kondratyev said in a post on Telegram.

«What happened today is a targeted attack by the Kyiv regime against civilians who have no connection to the military infrastructure. This cynical and inhumane terrorist attack against children cannot be justified.» 

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A fiery explosion rocks a Black Sea beach resort in Russia on Monday. (Social media via Reuters)

Andriy Kovalenko, an officer with Ukraine’s Defense Forces, disputed Russia’s account, saying the deaths were directly caused by Russian air defenses that intercepted a drone, sending debris onto the beach.

«Russian air defense shot down a drone over people lying on the beach,» Kovalenko said on Telegram.

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In the video, sounds resembling gunfire were heard just seconds before a drone struck the beach, causing a fireball explosion that sent bystanders screaming. As the gunfire was heard, the drone appeared to veer sharply before diving toward the beach.

Preliminary Russian reports also found that several of the deaths were caused by «falling drone debris,» Kondratyev said.

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In another Telegram post, Kovalenko indicated that Ukraine uses its weapons against Russian military-industrial infrastructure to affect Moscow’s ability to finance the war.

He further accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of creating an «illusion» that Russia would remain safe from the war by downplaying daily explosions as falling debris, limiting air raid warnings, and positioning air defenses near populated areas such as the Black Sea resort.

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Smoke rises after a deadly blast along a Russian resort beach on Monday. (Social media via Reuters)

«Putin deliberately killed these people. Because if he had not started the war and struck Ukraine, they would be alive,» Kovalenko said.

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«It was Putin, his air defense, who killed these Russians. His decisions in response to their decisions launched a chain of death for Russians.»



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Trump blasts Democratic socialist candidate as ‘full of s—‘ and Dems are skipping socialism ‘for communism’

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President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed Wednesday, singling out the progressive candidate as «full of s—» while arguing Democrats are embracing communism.

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The remarks came hours after El-Sayed narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s Democrat Senate primary, winning by less than one percentage point after The Associated Press called the race early Wednesday.

He will face Republican Mike Rogers in November for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Gary Peters.

Trump devoted several minutes of his Las Vegas speech to attacking democratic socialist candidates, arguing they are advancing communist ideas and calling communism «the greatest threat» facing the United States.

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event in Las Vegas on Wednesday. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)

«These people are dangerous and frankly, they are lunatics. They’re crazy, and we can’t let them get into office,» Trump said. «Communism is the greatest threat to our country in its history, including even World War One, World War Two, Pearl Harbor, 9/11. I think it’s the greatest threat.»

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The White House later amplified that portion of Trump’s remarks on social media, posting simply: «Communism is the greatest threat to our country.»

Trump mocked what he said communist policies would mean for Americans.

«Would you like a free house? We’ll take one from your neighbor. Would you like free rent? We’ll take it from whoever. We’ll take your building away from the landlord,» Trump said. «What they don’t say, and what Republicans should say, is that at the end of the year, you’ll have nothing but death, squalor, poverty. You’ll have a life of hell.»

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Michigan U.S. Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed, and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders

FILE – U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate primary candidate Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, greet the crowd after El-Sayed spoke at The People V. The Powerful rally at the Detroit Opera House on July 18, 2026 in Detroit, Mich. He was recently endorsed by Michigan Democratic Sen. Tina Smith. (Sarah Rice/Getty Images, File)

The president pointed to Venezuela as an example of what he said happens when communist policies take hold.

«Look at Venezuela, where it was such a rich country 20 years ago,» Trump said. «Every time this has happened, you go through squalor … filth, crime, death, destruction, embarrassment. You lose your home. You lose your apartment.»

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Trump then singled out El-Sayed by name, drawing one of the loudest reactions of the night.

«When I watch Abdul, he’s full of s—,» Trump said.

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Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive candidate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Michigan, films a social media video at a pool party for content creators supporting his campaign, Monday, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

El-Sayed’s victory gives Democrats a progressive nominee in one of the country’s most closely watched Senate races. Backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., El-Sayed campaigned on Medicare for All, getting money out of politics and ending U.S. military aid to Israel.

He has described himself as a capitalist and has distanced himself from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), though Republicans have frequently tied him to the broader democratic socialist movement.

Trump later returned to a familiar theme from the second term of his presidency.

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«If you remember, during my State of the Union speech, I made a very strong statement. I said that America will never be a socialist country,» Trump said. «I was right.»

The president argued Democrats now want to move beyond socialism.

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President Donald Trump introduces a family who has benefited from the «no tax on tips» policy during an event at Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa in Las Vegas on Wednesday. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

«What I didn’t say is what they’re trying to do. They want to skip socialism. They want to go right down to the bottom of the barrel. That’s communism,» Trump said. «They want it to be a communist country. We’re not letting them have it as a communist country, not even for a minute.»

Trump closed by vowing to defeat what he called the Democrat Party’s leftward movement.

«Together we will defeat communism, socialism and Marxism in America once and for all,» Trump said. «It’s defeated. It’s going to go down. It always goes down.»

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The White House and El-Sayed’s campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.

Fox News Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller, Kiera McDonald, and Robert Schmad contributed to this reporting.

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