Today in News History
On July 12, several notable moments in the history of News stand out. In 1928, Alastair Burnet, English journalist (died 2012) was born. In 1937, Robert McFarlane, American colonel and diplomat, 13th United States National Security Advisor (died 2022) was born. In 1948, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion orders the expulsion of Palestinians from the towns of Lod and Ramla. In 1963, Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders. In 1991, Pablo Carreño Busta, Spanish tennis player was born. In 1997, Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani-English activist, Nobel Prize laureate was born. In 2006, The 2006 Lebanon War begins. In 2007, U.S. Army Apache helicopters engage in airstrikes against armed insurgents in Baghdad, Iraq, where civilians are killed; footage from the cockpit is later leaked to the Internet. In 2008, Tony Snow, American journalist, 26th White House Press Secretary (born 1955) passed away. In 2014, Valeriya Novodvorskaya, Russian journalist and politician (born 1950) passed away. Together, these milestones provide historical context for today's news news and ongoing narratives.
Was Lindsey Graham assassinated? Putin aide blames Israel's Mossad amid MAGA's ‘poisoned’ claim; ‘Trump is next…’
Lindsey Graham's death fueled conspiracy theories, with Putin adviser Alexander Dugin claiming Mossad killed the senator to push Trump into war with Iran.
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The Daily Beast
· Jul 12, 2026
Putin’s Mouthpieces Taunt Trump Over Graham’s Death
Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/ReutersAfter years of threatening Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and even openly calling for his assassination, Vladimir Putin’s top propaganda stars are now gleefully hoping for more sudden deaths in the Trump administration.Graham, 71, died Saturday evening due to what his office described as a “brief and sudden illness.” The fact that it happened shortly after he returned from a trip to Ukraine was quickly seized upon by Russian state TV’s most influential propagandists.Head of RT Margarita Simonyan was among those gloating over Graham’s sudden passing. Suggesting he was “perhaps a natural-born fascist,” she claimed his visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was to blame for his shocking death. Read more at The Daily Beast.
AzerNews
· Jul 12, 2026
Netanyahu: Senator Graham urged me to strike Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told NBC's Meet the Press that the late US senator Lindsey Graham urged him to attack Iran, AzerNEWS reports.
Sky News Australia
· Jul 9, 2026
‘They want to kill him’: Iranian threats against Trump intensify US security precautions
Sky News Defence Analyst Peter Jennings speculates on whether Trump’s reference about Iran being ‘scum’ was because he’d had some intelligence put under his nose of a threat on his life. “There’s no secret that the Iranians want to kill Trump; they’ve been chanting that in the streets of Tehran for days now,” Mr Jennings told Sky News host James Morrow. “If they had an opportunity, they would certainly do it. “I just wonder if Trump’s reference about scum was because he’d had some intelligence put under his nose which said there’s going to be a serious attempt to try and kill you.”
The Hill
· Jul 12, 2026
Netanyahu says Lindsey Graham was 'very clear' about knocking out Iran's nuclear program
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was very clear about knocking out Iran's nuclear program prior to his death the night before. We removed this immediate and present danger of Iran with nuclear weapons that would've posed a danger to everybody, Netanyahu told NBC News's Kristen Welker on Meet...
The Eastern Herald
· Jul 2, 2026
Netanyahu Says Iran Had the Bomb. His Former Army Chief Calls It a Lie.
Benjamin Netanyahu told Channel 14 that Iran had already obtained atomic bombs when he ordered two strikes on the country. By Wednesday morning, his former army chief called it 'fabricating reality to frighten the Israeli public' — and Naftali Bennett said flatly: 'That's a lie.'
WRAL News
· Jul 9, 2026
US and Iran exchange intensifying fire across the Mideast, threatening the interim deal to end war
An Iranian official accused the United States of conducting an airstrike near the Bushehr nuclear power plant, something not immediately acknowledged by American officials.The state-run IRNA news agency quoted Ehsan Jahanian, a local official in Bushehr, as accusing the U.S. of striking near Iran...
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