US Senator Lindsey Graham, 71, Dies of Aortic Rupture

US Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump and a leading Republican voice on foreign policy, died on Saturday after a brief illness at the age of 71. The District of Columbia medical examiner gave the preliminary cause of death as an aortic dissection linked to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Graham was one of the most prominent Republican senators of his era.