Today's five.

Washington Gave Lindsey Graham the Full Sendoff

Netanyahu and Zelenskyy flew to Washington for a senator's funeral, which is a pretty good measure of what Lindsey Graham spent 30 years actually doing. Graham died July 11 at 71 from an aortic dissection, and Tuesday brought a Capitol Rotunda tribute followed by a service at the Washington National Cathedral. Trump called him a "legend" and a "giant" — the same man whose personal cell number Trump once read aloud to a crowd in 2016. He did it again at the funeral, to laughter. Graham would have appreciated that. The Senate also cleared a Russia-Iran sanctions bill the same day, which Graham had long championed.

Trump held back-to-back meetings with Netanyahu and Zelenskyy on Tuesday — neither open to reporters, both described using the full vocabulary of nothing: "very good," "positive and productive," "many important subjects discussed." The Netanyahu meeting ran nearly 90 minutes and was framed, at least by Netanyahu, as "excellent," which is what you say when you need the relationship to look fine. Meanwhile Iran launched ballistic missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan — all intercepted — marking the first such attack since Trump paused strikes Friday to try diplomacy. Trump had said diplomacy had "not much time." The missiles arrived on Tuesday.

Asking the Senate to cancel its five-week August recess is a bold move when you don't have the votes to pass the thing you're canceling the recess for. Trump posted over the weekend demanding Majority Leader Thune keep senators in session to advance the SAVE America Act — a federal voter ID bill — among other priorities. Ron DeSantis, not exactly a hostile witness, called the odds of it passing before recess "basically zero." The Dispatch is debating whether this is strategy or fixation. State-level outlets led with the recess demand. Nobody led with a path to 60 votes.

Florida just set a record no state has chased in a decade: two executions in one day. James Duckett, a former police officer convicted of killing a young girl, went first. Then Dominick Occhicone, 80, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents in 1986 — now the oldest person executed in Florida's modern history and the second-oldest in the U.S. DeSantis, in his final term, has made Florida's death chamber the country's busiest, framing it as long-overdue justice for waiting families. Occhicone's execution was Florida's twelfth this year.

Tampered gift cards on store racks is the kind of crime that sounds minor until you realize someone planned it. More than a dozen states have passed new laws this year targeting organized retail crime — not shoplifting, but the coordinated, professional version that includes hijacked freight and systematically drained gift cards. The legislation creates new criminal categories, stiffer penalties, and specialized task forces. Nobody called it an epidemic until it started looking like a logistics operation with HR and a supply chain.