South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster (R) will appoint Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of Lindsey Graham (R-SC), to fill the late senator’s vacated Senate seat, various reports said on Monday afternoon.

Graham Nordone, one of Graham’s only family members who was adopted by her brother after the death of their parents, will be named to succeed him on Monday, according to multiple reports. The official announcement was scheduled for 4 pm on Monday.

Politico’s Jonathan Martin wrote on social media, “It’s happening: @henrymcmaster will appoint Darline Graham Nordone to fill out the rest of her brother’s Senate term this year, per a Repub familiar.”

The appointment will come two days after the 71-year-old’s sudden death on Saturday.

On Monday morning, Graham Nordone was recommended by both President Donald Trump and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott (R) as the best choice to take over.

“I recommended, to Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham’s wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!”

“Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, would be a fantastic pick to serve out the remainder of the senate term,” Scott added in an X post. “After speaking with Darline, there is no one better who understands Lindsey’s love for family, our state, and our country.”

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Apple's "27" era is nearly here, including macOS 27. The upcoming update might not offer as many new features as some past macOS revisions, but it has one really big one: Alongside a number of quality-of-life upgrades, macOS Golden Gate includes a few major Apple Intelligence updates, including Siri AI. But if the only benefit I get from updating to macOS 27 is that my M1 iMac runs a bit smoother, I'll be happy.

Apple's new updates, including macOS 27, aren't officially here yet. They'll likely drop sometime in the fall for all compatible devices. That said, your compatible Mac can run macOS Golden Gate right now: Since June's WWDC conference, Apple has been beta testing its new updates with registered developers. That means if you're okay taking on the risks, you can try out macOS 27 right now.

Don't install the macOS 27 beta before understanding the risks

It's tempting to try out fresh features before the general public, especially when they're as high-profile as Siri AI. But before you install a beta of macOS 27 on your machine, you should be aware of the risks. Betas are not finished software, which means they can ship with bugs and glitches that wouldn't normally make it to an official update. You might install the macOS 27 beta on your Mac and find it works perfectly well, or you may encounter a bug that prevents you from using your computer as you normally would. It's a bit of a gamble.

The caveat is that the developer beta is currently safer than it was at launch. Apple has spent about a month beta testing its updates with developers before releasing them to a larger pool of users. As such, many of the more overt or critical glitches have likely been identified and patched. That doesn't mean the macOS 27 developer beta is entirely free of glitches, of course. You should make sure to back up any important data before installing the beta. Make sure all photos, documents, messages, etc. are saved somewhere secure, and not just included in an iCloud backup, in the event you lose data through the beta process.

Still, I recommend that most users wait for at least the public beta before testing out macOS 27. Apple said its public betas will be out sometime in July, so there shouldn't be much more of a wait. Apple will continue to release developer beta updates first before releasing the public beta equivalent, which offers some extra protection for users who want to lessen the risk of major bugs or glitches.

Which Macs are compatible with macOS 27?

While every iPhone that supports iOS 26 also supports iOS 27, the same isn't the case for macOS. Even if your Mac runs macOS 26, there's no guarantee it's compatible with macOS 27. In fact, this year marks Apple's official departure from Intel, as none of its Intel-based Macs support macOS 27. Here's the official list:

• MacBook Neo

• MacBook Air with Apple silicon

• MacBook Pro with Apple silicon

• iMac with Apple silicon

• Mac mini with Apple silicon

• Mac Studio

• Mac Pro with Apple silicon

Essentially, if your Mac's chip has an "M" in its name (e.g., M1, M5), it's compatible with macOS 27.

How to install the macOS 27 developer beta

If you're okay with the risks of installing a developer beta, you'll first need to enroll your Apple Account in the developer program. There used to be a $99 paywall here, but there is now a free option for anyone who just wants to try the developer beta. Once enrolled, head to System Settings > General > Software Update, then click the (i) next to "Beta Updates." Click "Off" next to "Beta Updates," then choose "macOS 27 Golden Gate Developer Beta." From here, hit "Done," then follow the on-screen instructions to download and install the update.

Money talks — and it’s telling Fox News host Tomi Lahren the GOP has a problem in Texas.

Lahren on Saturday vented Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) is “flawed” while talking about the state’s race on The Big Weekend Show.

She shared her concern after co-host Johnny Joey Jones told her Democratic candidate James Talarico had raised more than three times as much dough as Paxton between April and June — with Talarico pulling in about $30 million and Paxton receiving $9 million during that time.

“Now I’m not saying fundraising is everything, but it is one of the metrics to show the energy behind a candidate,” Jones said. “Do you think this is more of kind of like a pro-Cornyn hangover, like get through the primary but then the Republicans will coalesce around Paxton? Or is it that he’s a flawed candidate or is it that Talarico is that energetic to Democrats?”

“I think that Democrats see Talarico as like, ‘if we can win Texas with Talarico, we can do anything!'” Lahren said. “So I think that there’s this delusional thirst for it, which I think is gonna end up being futile.”

She continued, “But I will say that, we do have a flawed candidate on the right, we just do.”

Lahren said lame duck Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has proven he can win elections in the past and could “probably do it again,” while Paxton — who was backed by President Donald Trump in the primary — has his work cut out for him this year.

“I think at the end of the day he’s going to pull out a victory,” Lahren said. “But I love that we can laugh at Talarico because he’s so easy to laugh at — I would just caution Republicans from laughing too hard. I would hate for us to look ridiculous.”

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FBI Director Kash Patel is being called out for stoking conspiracy theories about the death of Lindsey Graham.

In a post to X early Sunday, the FBI director paid homage to the late South Carolina Senator — who died suddenly at the age of 71.

“Senator Lindsey Graham was a devoted public servant, a fierce defender of our nation, and a true patriot who dedicated his life to the people of South Carolina and the United States,” Patel wrote. “Our prayers are with his family, loved ones, colleagues, and all those who knew him during this devastating time.”

But it was the last line of Patel’s post which raised eyebrows.

“The FBI is assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available,” Patel wrote.

The comment was immediately called out by critics.

“A genuinely reckless end of this tweet,” The Bulwark’s Sam Stein wrote.

Others called out the FBI director as well:

Some on the far-right have already spread conspiracy theories about Graham, who died from “a brief and sudden illness,” according to his office. Emergency personnel reportedly responded to a person at Graham’s home suffering from cardiac arrest.

But the official reports have done little to dampen speculation among the conspiracy theory crowd. Indeed, Laura Loomer — one of those who has been pushing the theories most vociferously — promptly shared Patel’s post.

“The @FBI is now investigating Senator Lindsey Graham’s sudden death and is ‘assisting local authorities and has made every necessary resource available,'” Loomer wrote. “It’s imperative that the FBI conducts their own toxicology report on Senator Graham. The DC crime lab is incompetent.”

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Dave Portnoy went off on WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert for apparently ditching a national radio interview at the last minute, with the Barstool Sports CEO calling it an “absolute coward move.”

Portnoy ripped Engelbert in a Saturday X post, one day after she allegedly blew off a scheduled interview with Dan Patrick’s show.

Engelbert claimed to Patrick that the league’s public relations staff told her not to do the sitdown — which prompted Portnoy to cry foul.

“This is one of my biggest pet peeves in the world. When people like Cathy Englebert say they can’t do something their agent or PR said so. THEY WORK FOR YOU,” Portnoy posted. “Absolute coward move. Anyway this is just yet another example of what [a] clown show the WNBA is. Worst run league in the world.”

Portnoy’s blistering X response included a clip of Patrick breaking down the canceled interview:

Engelbert had agreed to come on his program, Patrick said on the show — only to keep his crew waiting for two hours at a Lake Tahoe hotel.

The crew learned the interview would not happen as they waited to enter Engelbert’s hotel room to start the sitdown.

“We waited and we waited and we waited,” Patrick said. “And then we got word… that the commissioner said that the WNBA staff, the PR staff, said that she is now allowed to do this. They would prefer that she not do this.”

Patrick said he planned on asking “tough” but “fair” questions “about Caitlin Clark, the WNBA expansion, [and] a lot of different things.”

The league has come under scrutiny after a recent incident in which Clark was struck in the throat during a game, prompting outrage.

Patrick flashed images of Engelbert nonchalantly swinging a golf club — she was at Lake Tahoe for a celebrity-packed golf tournament — as he talked about her ducking the interview.

Portnoy has slammed the WNBA for failing to include Clark in a promo for a game she was playing in.

“Caitlan Clark is the face of your league, and she’s not on the [promo] from the WNBA account,” a baffled Portnoy said in May.

“That is so intentional by whoever did that on the WNBA whose running their account,” he continued. “You have to fire them. You’re openly saying ‘We hate Caitlin Clark, we hate our fans, we don’t want you.’”

He made a similar comment last month, saying no league has been “marketed worse or been dumber than the WNBA.” 

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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) was detained during a visit to the West Bank and shared video of the dramatic moment he was detained by Israeli forces.

“Israeli settlers, brandishing American made M4s, detained me & other Americans on my trip to Palestine,” Khanna wrote on X Saturday. “When the IDF arrived, they sided with the settlers & continued our detention. They made a huge mistake. You will be hearing more soon.”

Khanna shared a clip, apparently taken from his vehicle, of Israeli soldiers blocking the road.

The congressman, a vocal critic of Israel’s government, said he was detained by Israeli settlers, and later Israeli military, during a three-day trip this week while he touring the demolished-Palestinian Bedouin village of Khirbet Zanuta.

Khanna told The New York Times Israeli settlers with guns blocked his vehicle and others from leaving via the road to the village. The men were reportedly “swearing at them in Hebrew and Arabic and kicking the tires of their minibus.” A Times photographer was in another vehicle and witnessed the incident.

Two Israeli military vehicles later arrived and Khanna assumed they were there to help him leave, but they “smoked cigarettes, chatted with the men and after the settlers left, moved a car to block the road.”

“I felt powerless in that situation, which is not an easy thing, as I have a lot of privilege in life,” he said. “Imagine how people feel every day, Palestinians under the occupation, if they could make an American congressperson feel powerless for 90 minutes.”

Khanna, who is considering a 2028 presidential run, gave a warning to Israel after the detainment, telling them that such incidents are not the best way to build “good will” with the United States.

“Free advice to the Israelis: It’s not a good idea to detain long-shot presidential candidates,” he said. “Not how you’re going to build good will with the next American president, whoever that is.”

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John King, CNN’s chief national correspondent, joined anchor Dana Bash on Friday to discuss the latest dynamics on the ground in Maine following Graham Platner’s vow to drop out as the Democrat’s U.S. Senate candidate.

“Let’s talk about Maine, even though you’re in Michigan. You have been spending a lot of time — first of all, you were in Maine last month — and then since then you have been staying in touch, I know, with the voters, particularly the female voters who were already kind of on the fence about Platner. What are you hearing from them now that Platner has imploded?” Bash asked King.

“First and foremost, they wish he would shut up. Forgive my language, but they wish he would just shut up. They didn’t like his exit video where he portrayed himself as the victim. They think he’s the problem, and they think the people around him — again, the Bernie Sanders supporters, the consultants, and the unions that recruited Graham Platner — are still trying to play an active role in that race,” King replied, adding:

And that might be important to some of the progressives who supported Platner, but it is annoying to those who did not, or to those who supported Platner reluctantly and now want to move on from the whole episode — not just him, but them, if you will, all the people around him. So as this plays out, now we have to go through this two-week process to pick a successor, and it has a lot of Maine Democrats nervous. As you noted, this was the number one opportunity for Democrats — a Republican-held Senate seat coming into the cycle. It was opportunity number one: get Maine, take Maine from Republican Susan Collins.

Now Democrats are worried this fractured family will cost them the race again. To go back in time: you know, Kamala Harris won Maine by nine points. So you say, “Oh, we can win by six points.” I’m sorry — we say we can’t win this state? Why can’t Democrats win the state? Go back further: Joe Biden won it by nine. So Maine is there for the taking for the Democrats. But you know this as well as I do — I just want to remind people, Susan Collins was also on the ballot in 2020, when Joe Biden won the state by nine points, and she was re-elected.

That’s what Democrats worry about. She has proven, in a difficult climate — 2020 was a blue year, it was a Democratic year — that she can eke out a win. Democrats up there know that she’s competitive, know that she can do this. They’re worried, just like they’re worried here, that if you have a — now you have another fractured Democratic fight to pick your nominee — that some people on the losing side decide to stay home in November. So Maine, Maine: number one, wants to get a candidate; number two, the people who had reservations about Platner before just wish he would be quiet and go away now.

“All right, well, we’ll see if that happens. John, thank you so much, appreciate it,” Bash concluded.

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