{"id":16473,"date":"2026-07-13T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/news\/2026\/07\/13\/live-news-us-senator-lindsey-graham-dies-at-71-after-sudden-illness-washington-mourns-gop-senator\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T09:22:38","slug":"live-news-us-senator-lindsey-graham-dies-at-71-after-sudden-illness-washington-mourns-gop-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/news\/2026\/07\/13\/live-news-us-senator-lindsey-graham-dies-at-71-after-sudden-illness-washington-mourns-gop-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE News: US Senator Lindsey Graham Dies At 71 After Sudden Illness, Washington Mourns GOP Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title = \"LIVE News: US Senator Lindsey Graham Dies At 71 After Sudden Illness, Washington Mourns GOP Senator\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eglVDTBEq-o?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n <br \/>\n<br \/>U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has died at the age of 71 following what his office described as a brief and sudden illness.<br \/>\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has died at the age of 71 following what his office described as a brief and sudden illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":16474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41438,133,2987,32,4,2,3,393,43779,259,8972,43771,43770,43776,43772,43774,43777,15,477,798,4524,43775,44,43778,1427,70,3620,43773,1078,21187,31],"class_list":["post-16473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-capitol-hill","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-fox-us-news","tag-fox-usa","tag-gop","tag-graham-death-update","tag-latest-news","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-lindsey-graham-death","tag-lindsey-graham-dies","tag-lindsey-graham-illness","tag-lindsey-graham-latest-news","tag-lindsey-graham-obituary","tag-lindsey-graham-passes-away","tag-news","tag-political-news","tag-republican-party","tag-south-carolina-senator","tag-trump-ally","tag-trump-news","tag-us-breaking-news","tag-us-government","tag-us-politics","tag-us-senate","tag-us-senator-lindsey-graham","tag-washington-dc","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - 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