Category Archives: WPTF News
Darline Graham Nordone, sister of Lindsey Graham, chosen to fulfill remainder of his US Senate term
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Lindsey Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as her late brother's temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate after his unexpected death over the weekend. South ...
Jul 13, 2026 Newly appointed U.S. interim Senator, Darline Graham Nordone, with South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, right, and Sen. Time Scott (R-SC), left, speaks to members of the press after being appointed of to fill the vacancy created by the passing of her brother, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, at the statehouse Monday, July 13, 2026, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)
ACC turns to Gary Patterson as supervisor of football officials
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - The Atlantic Coast Conference has hired Gary Patterson as supervisor of football officials. The league announced the hiring Monday after Al Riveron announced last week he is ste...
Jul 13, 2026 33ft / Depositphotos.com
Trump says US will blockade Iran in the Strait of Hormuz and charge ships for safe passage
By JON GAMBRELL and JOSH BOAK Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States is "reinstating" a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Ho...
Jul 13, 2026 QESHM ISLAND, IRAN - APRIL 28: The Ateela 2 Oil Tanker boat navigates the sea on April 28, 2026 on Qeshm Island, Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. (Photo by Asghar Besharati/Getty Images)
Sam Neill, New Zealand actor who starred in 'Jurassic Park' and 'The Piano,' dies at 78
By MARK KENNEDY and CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Sam Neill, the smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose prolific career moved from art films to blockbuster...
Jul 13, 2026
AT THE MOVIES: Disney's live-action 'Moana' crashes to shore with an underwhelming splash at the box office
By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer The Walt Disney Company's live action "Moana" may be the No. 1 movie at the domestic box office, but it did not make a big splash in its first weekend in theaters. The m...
Jul 12, 2026 This image released by Disney shows Catherine Laga'aia
in a scene from "Moana."
McConnell says a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking weeks of silence about health condition
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Mitch McConnell on Sunday revealed for the first time that a fall led to his hospitalization, breaking the silence about his condition af...
Jul 12, 2026
US strikes Iran over latest ship attack and Tehran responds by hitting Arab states
By JON GAMBRELL and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The United States attacked Iran early Sunday over an Iranian strike on a container ship in the Strait of Hormuz th...
Jul 12, 2026 TEHRAN, IRAN - MAY 24: People wave flags and hold portraits of the dead at the Imam Khomeini Mosalla Mosque to commemorate those killed in the current US-Israeli war as well as previous wars on May 24, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close Trump ally, dies after a brief and unexpected illness, his office says
By SEUNG MIN KIM, MARY CLARE JALONICK and MEG KINNARD Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of President Donald Trump's closest allies in Congress who traveled the globe to advoc...
Jul 12, 2026 FILE - U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. answers questions from the media near an exhibition of damaged Russian vehicles in central Kyiv, on July 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
Fate of Strait of Hormuz challenges talks as Trump and Iran's supreme leader trade threats
By JON GAMBRELL, MICHELLE L. PRICE and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran and Oman's foreign ministers met on Saturday to discuss the Strait of Hormuz that lies bet...
Jul 11, 2026 Pedestrians walk past a poster showing the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, left, and the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini on a sidewalk at the Islamic Revolution square in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, June 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
A lost AirPod, AI fakes and the secret garden: How fans experienced Taylor Swift's private wedding
By LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press With a trash-grabbing claw and plastic bag in hand, Justin Gignac dressed up in his wedding tuxedo and waded through the Swifties, some of whom had spent hours stan...
Jul 11, 2026