{"success":true,"data":{"id":"684e3abd-b61f-45a1-ae3f-14c1125ade13","title":"US Senator Lindsey Graham dies after 'brief and sudden illness', his office says","summary":"Site search News Business Technology Culture Arts Travel Earth Audio Video Live Documentaries US Senator Lindsey Graham dies after 'brief and sudden illness', his office says 17 minutes ago Save Gabriela Pomeroy 0:53 Watch: Senator Lindsey Graham visited Ukraine a day before he died US Republican Se...","content":"Site search \n\nNews\n\nBusiness\n\nTechnology\n\nCulture\n\nArts\n\nTravel\n\nEarth\n\nAudio\n\nVideo\n\nLive\n\nDocumentaries\n\n# US Senator Lindsey Graham dies after 'brief and sudden illness', his office says\n\n17 minutes ago\n\nSave\n\nGabriela Pomeroy\n\n0:53\n\nWatch: Senator Lindsey Graham visited Ukraine a day before he died\n\nUS Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has died following a brief and sudden illness.\n\nHis office has released a statement saying he died on Saturday evening. \"Senator Graham's family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period.\"\n\nElected to the Senate in 2002, the South Carolina politician was one of Washington's most influential voices on foreign policy and a key ally of Trump.\n\nHe had just returned from Kyiv, where he met the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday. There were no known health concerns ahead of his trip.\n\nIn a social media post marking the senator's death, US President Donald Trump said Graham was a \"true American Patriot\".\n\nGraham also served as Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.\n\nHe was a strong proponent of US support for Ukraine. \"Putin will not stop in Ukraine,\" he told the BBC in 2023.\n\n\"To be weak in Ukraine means that you lose in Taiwan,\" he said.\n\nIn his most recent trip to Ukraine, Graham was working on a version of the Russia sanctions bill, which he said would give \"tools to President Trump to end this war.\"\n\nOver the years, Graham clashed with President Trump, but he became one of his staunchest backers.\n\nHe [told the BBC in 2023](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4p7x): \"There is a dark side to Donald Trump... and he was a very good president. But I am sticking with him because I saw what he did,\" citing Trump's record on the US southern border, the killing of Iran's Qasem Soleimani and the appointment of conservative judges.\n\nBBC in other languages\n\n### The BBC is in multiple languages\n\n#### Read the BBC In your own language\n\nFollow BBC on:","source_name":"BBC News","source_url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgj25j6nmeo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgj25j6nmeo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss","author":"Unknown Author","author_name":"Unknown Author","published_at":"2026-07-12T07:33:12.000Z","publication_date":"2026-07-12T07:33:12.000Z","image_url":"https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/2995/live/0335cba0-7c6e-11f1-98fd-6b03daaf8a77.jpg.webp","category":"world","topic":"world","tags":[],"political_bias":null,"bias_score":null,"confidence_score":null,"credibility_score":null,"factual_quality":null,"reading_time":2,"word_count":326,"view_count":0,"breaking":false,"breaking_news":false,"ai_analysis":null,"fact_check_status":"unverified","archive_status":"hot"}}