Jul 28 WATCH: Sen. Lindsey Graham remembered in funeral service at Washington National Cathedral By Lisa Mascaro, Meg Kinnard, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press President Donald Trump is expected to deliver remarks at the cathedral, alongside Fox News' Sean Hannity and other conservative leaders. Continue reading
Jul 27 Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist who created the 'Body Worlds' exhibition, dies at 81 By Geir Moulson, Associated Press During a "Body Worlds" show in London in 2002, the anatomist conducted Britain's first public autopsy in 170 years before a sellout crowd of hundreds, defying government warnings that it might be illegal. Continue reading
Jul 16 'Jurassic Park' star Sam Neill died from pneumonia, agent says By Charlotte Graham-McLay, Associated Press Actor Sam Neill died from pneumonia and will be honored at a private family memorial at his New Zealand farm later, his agent told The Associated Press on Thursday. Continue reading
Jul 13 Watch 10:47 Lindsey Graham's career and influence on American politics By Lisa Desjardins, Ali Schmitz, Doug Adams South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham died Saturday of an aortic dissection and cardiovascular disease. The Republican served more than 30 years in Congress, becoming one of the nation's most prominent voices on foreign policy and later one of President Trump's… Continue watching
Jul 13 Actor Sam Neill dies at 78 By Mark Kennedy, Charlotte Graham-McLay, Associated Press The smoothly elegant and versatile actor moved from art films to blockbusters, as he dodged velociraptors in “Jurassic Park” and played Holly Hunter’s husband in “The Piano.”… Continue reading
Jul 09 Wally Funk, aviation pioneer who was oldest woman to travel into space, dies at 87 By Associated Press Funk was one of 13 female pilots who went through the same tests as NASA’s all-male astronaut corps in the early 1960s but never made it into space. In 2021, she got her chance aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue… Continue reading
Jul 07 George E. Johnson Sr., founder of a pioneering Black hair care empire, dies at 99 By Corey Williams, Aisha I. Jefferson, Associated Press Johnson Products also was a national sponsor of the hit 1970s music and dance television show "Soul Train."… Continue reading
Jun 26 Sergei Ivanov, former Russian defense minister once seen as Putin's likely successor, dies at 73 By Associated Press Putin and Ivanov knew each other since the 1970s when they both worked as young KGB officers in their hometown of Leningrad, as St. Petersburg was called during the Soviet times. Continue reading
Jun 22 Watch 3:21 Music industry titan Clive Davis, who turned artists into stars across genres, dies at 94 By Nick Schifrin, Jackson Hudgins The music industry lost a titan on Monday. Clive Davis, who nurtured artists across nearly every major genre for more than half a century, has died at the age of 94. Nick Schifrin reports. Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 6:39 Remembering the legacy of Alan Greenspan, 'maestro' of the U.S. economy By Paul Solman, Diane Lincoln Estes Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, died Monday of complications from Parkinson’s at the age of 100. Greenspan was widely considered the most powerful Fed chair in modern times, largely presiding over a period of long prosperity,… Continue watching