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Lindsey Graham's only surviving family member said she was "kind of like devastated" as President Donald Trump publicly pushed her to fill her late brother's Senate seat.

Darline Graham Nordone, 62, of Lexington, South Carolina, was asked Monday about her reaction to the president's suggestion after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died Saturday night of an aortic dissection, a tear in the body's main artery. His office announced the death early Sunday.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced backlash Monday after announcing a new task force to hunt and prosecute "leakers," drawing an immediate rebuke from CNN anchor Jake Tapper.

Hegseth posted a video to X Monday morning announcing that the Pentagon and the Justice Department had created a joint task force to identify and prosecute anyone who leaks sensitive military information.

A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS was an improper exercise in self-dealing, and barred him from claiming that the sweeping tax protections he walked away with came out of a legitimate settlement, the New York Times reported.

Judge Kathleen M. Williams did not explicitly kill the deal Trump cut with his own government, which amounts to amnesty from any investigation into tax returns he, his family and their businesses have already filed. But her scathing 56-page ruling out of federal court in Miami laid bare what the negotiations between Trump's personal lawyers and senior Justice Department officials actually were.

Donald Trump’s personal choice to replace Lindsey Graham in the Senate after the South Carolina Republican passed away over the weekend landed with a thud with some of his most avid supporters.

On Monday, the president took to Truth Social and proposed, “I recommended, to Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham’s wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina. This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly! President DONALD J. TRUMP”

As the United States ramps up its war against Iran, President Donald Trump may be nearing his "economic and political pain threshold," political analyst Trita Parsi argued Monday, a shift that may have already sealed his and the GOP's fate in the impending midterm elections.

“The United States is now only four months away from the midterm elections, dramatically shortening Trump's economic and political pain threshold,” Parsi, the co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, wrote in an analysis published Monday.

Vice President JD Vance had, arguably, a worse week last week than Democrats, who are still reeling from Senate candidate Graham Platner’s campaign collapse in the wake of credible sexual assault accusations.

That is the opinion of Wall Street Editorial Board member Allysia Finley, who wrote on Monday that the veep just ended a week that he would likely want to forget.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faces Epstein survivors at his Senate confirmation hearing this week, with one expert predicting he'll be left "squirming."

Blanche is set to testify Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to The Bulwark. Kristol writes that Democrats intend to call at least one survivor as a witness on Thursday.

Just hours after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died Saturday night of a sudden illness, President Donald Trump told NBC News he already had “somebody great” in mind to replace him on an interim basis, and on Monday, finally revealed that person's identity.

“I recommended, to [South Carolina GOP] Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham’s wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina," Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. "This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!”

Goldman Sachs' messy attempt to move past a damaging scandal related to Jeffrey Epstein has just gotten messier.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, attorney Kathryn Ruemmler, general counsel for the financial giant, was supposed to move on after her ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein became public and too embarrassing to ignore.

President Donald Trump uttered a remark Sunday “that didn’t get nearly enough attention,” according to the "Jim Acosta Show" Substack, one that saw “the mask slip in a bombshell moment” that carried with it a troubling implication.

Trump called into NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday to discuss the recent and sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and while the bulk of the discussion centered on the South Carolina Republican, Trump snapped at NBC News' Kristen Welker when she briefly steered the conversation elsewhere.

President Donald Trump announced Monday that the United States will reinstate its naval blockade of Iran and be "reimbursed, at the rate of 20% on all cargo shipped" through the Strait of Hormuz, a levy he did not explain.

Trump said the strait itself would stay open to every country other than Iran. Hours earlier, in a call-in to Fox News, he said: "We're taking over the strait. They've got nothing." He added that the US would "probably run it" and "get paid for guarding it — a lot of money."

ICE agents killed a person in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday morning, then quickly surrounded the body while state and federal investigators rushed to the scene.

Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau (D-ME), who represents Biddeford, confirmed the killing in a Facebook post.