Overview
- National memorials were held in Washington on July 28 with leaders including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attending and Vice President J.D. Vance delivering a Rotunda eulogy.
- President Trump delivered a 14‑minute eulogy that veered from the prepared text and was widely replayed after video showed him appearing to close his eyes at times during the cathedral service.
- South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster appointed Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, as interim senator and she has entered a compressed Republican special primary to seek the full term.
- Hours after the Washington funeral the Senate advanced a bill to impose new sanctions on Russia that Graham had pushed, with an 86–12 vote to move the measure forward.
- The District of Columbia medical examiner’s preliminary report cites an aortic dissection linked to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease as Graham’s cause of death, with toxicology and microscopic tests still pending and federal agents assisting local investigators.