Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is being laid to rest this week in a two-day series of funeral services spanning Washington, D.C., and his native South Carolina, following his sudden death on July 11 at age 71.

Graham, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, died after emergency responders were called to his Capitol Hill home for cardiac arrest; a medical examiner later attributed his death to an aortic dissection. He had just returned from a trip to Kyiv, where he'd met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and had been scheduled to appear on NBC's "Meet the Press" the following morning. President Trump, who said he'd spoken with Graham hours before his death and considered him like family, is expected to deliver remarks at Tuesday's service at Washington National Cathedral, following an earlier ceremony at the U.S. Capitol honoring his military and Senate career.

A push by House Republicans to crack down on hard-to-trace nonprofit fundraising — originally aimed at left-leaning groups — could end up forcing new financial disclosures from Freedom 250, the organization behind the Trump administration's celebration of America's 250th anniversary.

Rather than creating a new charity, the administration built Freedom 250 as a subsidiary of the National Park Foundation, a congressionally chartered nonprofit that normally raises money for the National Park Service. Trump promised the group would throw the country "the most spectacular birthday party you've ever seen," and government records show the parent foundation received roughly $90 million in federal funding to support the celebration. Because Freedom 250 sits inside that larger nonprofit, it currently isn't required to disclose specifics about how it raises or spends its money — even though a spokesperson said all corporate sponsors are public except for a handful who requested anonymity.

Bryan Kohberger, who pleaded guilty last year to murdering four University of Idaho students, is now asking a court to let him withdraw that plea, claiming he is innocent and was misled into confessing.

In a statement provided to The New York Times and filed in court records, Kohberger said his plea "must be withdrawn" because it was based on "false promises and blatant disinformation," and that his "actual innocence" is his truth. He's asking to reopen the case and go to trial — a striking reversal from July 2025, when he pleaded guilty in an Ada County courtroom to four counts of first-degree murder and one count of burglary in exchange for four consecutive life sentences without parole, avoiding the death penalty for the November 2022 stabbing deaths of Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Ethan Chapin.