Obituaries
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John Warner met Liz Taylor at dinner -- with Queen Elizabeth
May 26, 2021 7:00 am - John Warner served for 30 years in the U.S. Senate, much of it as chairman of the powerful Armed Services Committee, and as a centrist Republican he established himself ...
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John Warner dies; former GOP senator was military expert
May 26, 2021 7:00 am - ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - Former Sen. John W. Warner of Virginia, a courtly figure and longtime military expert whose marriage to Elizabeth Taylor gave him a potent dash of...
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'Chicka Chicka Boom Boom' illustrator Lois Ehlert dies at 86
May 26, 2021 7:00 am - MILWAUKEE (AP) - Lois Ehlert, whose cut-and-paste shapes and vibrant hues in books including 'œChicka Chicka Boom Boom'ť put her among the most popular illustrators of b...
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'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' author Eric Carle dies at 91
May 26, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Eric Carle, the beloved children's author and illustrator whose classic 'œThe Very Hungry Caterpillar'ť and other works gave millions of kids some of the...
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Dan Frank, revered editor at Pantheon Books, dead at 67
May 24, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Dan Frank, a revered and longtime editor at Pantheon Books who worked with such prize-winning authors as Cormac McCarthy, Oliver Sacks and Jill Lepore, d...
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Max Mosley, racing boss who took on UK tabloids, dies at 81
May 24, 2021 7:00 am - LONDON (AP) - Max Mosley, who shook off the stigma of his family's links to fascism to become international motorsport's top administrator and later made a stand as a pr...
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China's Yuan Longping dies; rice research helped feed world
May 23, 2021 7:00 am - TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital ...
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Australian rugby league great Bob Fulton dead at 73
May 23, 2021 7:00 am - SYDNEY (AP) - Bob Fulton, one of the most celebrated players in Australian rugby league and a former captain, coach and selector of the Kangaroos, has died. He was 73. F...
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Record-setting centenarian cyclist Marchand dies aged 109
May 22, 2021 7:00 am - Robert Marchand, a diminutive Frenchman who once was told he would never excel in cycling only to set world records as a centenarian, has died. He was 109. Marchand, who...
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'Head lesbian,' singer and feminist, Alix Dobkin, dies at 80
May 21, 2021 7:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - The lesbian singer and feminist activist who appeared in an iconic and recently resurgent 1975 photo wearing a t-shirt that read 'œThe Future is Female,'...