The late U.S. senator Harry Reid, who rose from abject poverty in rural Nevada to become one of the most influential state and national leaders, died at home on Tuesday after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. Harry Reid was…
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Bells ran at midday Monday from St. George’s Anglican Cathedral in Cape Town to honor Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu one day after his death at age 90. The cathedral is where Tutu urged South Africans to…
JOHANNESBURG (A.P.) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of the country’s past racist policy of apartheid, and a modern-day activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, died Sunday at 90. South Africans, world leaders,…
Michael Tylo, best known for Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless, has died. He was 72. Tylo’s death was announced by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where He had been teaching at the institution since 2003, beginning as a visiting professor in…
Al Harrington, the Samoan-American actor, died on Tuesday afternoon after suffering a stroke last week, his family confirmed to The Honolulu Star-Advertiser. “Al was truly a gift from God. A noble, compassionate, patient, and gentleman with a witty sense of humor and…
Norm Macdonald, the Canadian-born comedian who became an influential cast member of Saturday Night Live after he joined in 1993, has died. He was 61. His brother Neil said Macdonald died Tuesday in Los Angeles from leukemia, which he was diagnosed with…
The Rev. Leonid Kishkovsky, who came to the United States as a childhood refugee from war-torn Poland and later became a leader in cross-church cooperation and the first Eastern Orthodox president of the National Council of Churches, has died. Kishkovsky…
Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. The pugnacious businessman, bureaucrat, and former lawmaker helped…
