Obituaries
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Ex-US Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming dies after bicycle accident
Jul 27, 2021 7:00 am - GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) - Retired Sen. Mike Enzi, a Wyoming Republican known as a consensus-builder in an increasingly polarized Washington, has died after he broke his neck...
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Karadima, priest defrocked for sexual abuses, dies in Chile
Jul 26, 2021 7:00 am - SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - Fernando Karadima, a Chilean priest who was at the center of a sexual abuse scandal that has recently shaken the Catholic Church in Chile and who ...
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1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died
Jul 25, 2021 7:00 am - Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the...
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Gloria Ratti, a champion for women's running, dies at 90
Jul 25, 2021 7:00 am - BOSTON (AP) - Gloria Ratti, a champion of women's running who rose from a finish line volunteer at the Boston Marathon to vice president of the race's organizing body, h...
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Nobel prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg dies at 88
Jul 24, 2021 7:00 am - Physicist Steven Weinberg, who won the Nobel prize in 1979 with two other scientists for their separate contributions unlocking mysteries of tiny particles and their ele...
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Jackie Mason, comic who perfected amused outrage, dies at 93
Jul 24, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Jackie Mason, a rabbi-turned-comedian whose feisty brand of standup comedy led him to Catskills nightclubs, West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, ha...
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Dane who drew controversial Muhammad caricature dies at 86
Jul 19, 2021 7:00 am - HELSINKI (AP) - Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, whose image of the Prophet Muhammad wearing a bomb as a turban was at the center of widespread anti-Danish anger in t...
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Greek popular folk singer Tolis Voskopoulos dies at age 80
Jul 19, 2021 7:00 am - ATHENS, GREECE (AP) - Tolis Voskopoulos, a popular Greek folk singer, songwriter and actor whose career spanned more than six decades, has died. He was 80. Voskopoulos, ...
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'Kansas' rock violinist, singer Robby Steinhardt, dies at 71
Jul 19, 2021 7:00 am - TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Robert E. 'œRobby'ť Steinhardt, a violinist and vocalist with the progressive rock band Kansas, has died due to complications from pancreatitis. He w...
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Opera director Graham Vick dies at 67 of COVID complications
Jul 18, 2021 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Graham Vick, a British director who founded Birmingham Opera Company and worked in opera houses around the world, has died of complications from COVID-19. ...