Editors led with President Trump's eulogy for Senator Lindsey Graham, whose funeral dominated coverage from morning tributes by VP Vance and Senator Thune through Trump's evening remarks. Multiple outlets carried the service live, framing Graham as an 'American original' and 'towering figure.'
Earlier, the White House meetings with Netanyahu and Zelenskyy drew attention, particularly Trump's public rebuke of Netanyahu over Israeli intel on Iran's nuclear program. The Iran war tensions persisted, with a late-night Iranian missile attack on U.S. forces in Jordan ending a brief pause in hostilities.
The release of Fauci's diaries by Senator Rand Paul continued to fuel conservative attacks, while a DHS official's resignation letter denouncing a 'war on immigrants' gained traction on the left. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Japan caused a mall collapse and deaths, and American Airlines briefly grounded flights nationwide due to an IT outage.