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Cardinal Theodore McCarrick speaks during a memorial service in South Bend, Ind., on March 4, 2015. The once-powerful Catholic cardinal, who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation determined he had molested adults and children, has died at age 94.

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Defrocked former D.C. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick dies at 94

Theodore McCarrick, a once-powerful Catholic cardinal who was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after a Vatican investigation determined he had molested adults and children, has died.

April 05, 2025
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Thought he spent time around the folk revival scene of the 1960s, Michael Hurley quickly cut a unique path for his career, with an extremely independent approach to recording and releasing music.

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Remembering Michael Hurley, a godfather of folk music's underground

Sometimes called the father of freak-folk, the 83-year-old singer-songwriter lived, worked and died on his own terms.

April 04, 2025
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  • Grayson Haver Currin
Actor Val Kilmer died Tuesday at age 65. He's pictured above in the 1999 film <em>At First Sight.</em>

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Appreciating the many onscreen moods of Val Kilmer

More than a hundred roles in a nearly four-decade career let Val Kilmer explore a wealth of human experience.

April 02, 2025
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  • Bob Mondello
The city room of <em>The New York Times</em> is pictured on June 15, 1971. From left are <em>Times</em> editors James L. Greenfield, foreign editor; Max Frankel, chief Washington correspondent; and Fred P. Graham from the <em>Times</em> Washington bureau. Frankel went on to be the paper's top editor.

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Max Frankel, former New York Times top editor, dies at 94

Frankel was The New York Times' executive editor from 1986 to 1994. He remained with the newspaper for nearly half a century, ushering it through different eras.

March 23, 2025
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  • Jordan-Marie Smith
Former heavyweight champion George Foreman has hit glove lifted into the air after referee Al Munoz gave Foreman the victory in his heavyweight fight against Bert Cooper in Phoenix, on June 2, 1989.

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George Foreman, the fearsome heavyweight who became a beloved champion, dies at 76

The heavyweight who lost the "Rumble in the Jungle" to Muhammad Ali before authoring an inspiring second act as a 45-year-old champion and a successful businessman was 76.

March 22, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Eddie Jordan, former Formula One driver and team owner, listens during a press conference in July 2013 in Moscow.

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Ex-F1 team owner and media personality Eddie Jordan has died at 76

Jordan ran his own team in the 1990s and 2000s in Formula 1. He became a popular pundit on TV after selling the team in 2005.

March 20, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Honduran musician and politician Aurelio Martínez, photographed in London in 2011.

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Aurelio Martínez, ambassador of Garifuna music, has died

The Honduran musician, one of the most recognized proponents of a Caribbean culture dating to the 17th century, died Monday in an airplane crash.

March 19, 2025
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  • Felix Contreras
Jesse Colin Young performs live in 1973.

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Jesse Colin Young, singer of The Youngbloods' 'Get Together,' dies at 83

Prolific musician Jesse Colin Young, best known for being the voice of the '60s folk-rock anthem "Get Together," died on Sunday at age 83.

March 18, 2025
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  • Annie Zaleski
Sports writer and author John Feinstein poses in Washington, Feb. 28, 2006.

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John Feinstein, sports writer and author of 'A Season on the Brink,' dies at 69

Feinstein was comfortable writing fiction and nonfiction, and took on an array of sports, including golf and tennis, but he was known most for his connection to college basketball.

March 14, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina's music probed religion, philosophy and the joy of sound itself.

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Sofia Gubaidulina, the composer who fused sound and spirituality, has died at age 93

One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and Western philosophies, and the joy of sound itself.

March 13, 2025
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  • Tom Huizenga
In 2012, playwright Athol Fugard, who was then 80, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2012/08/02/157732975/playwright-fugard-bucked-south-africas-racist-ideas"target="_blank"   >said,</a> "I have a greater sense of adventure at this moment in my life than I ever had in the past." Fugard is pictured above in February 1985.

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Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92

The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was to make "leaps out of my reality and into other realities."

March 10, 2025
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  • Jeff Lunden
D'Wayne Wiggins of Tony! Toni! Tone! poses for a portrait in New York on Sept. 27, 2023. He died Friday at age 64.

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D'Wayne Wiggins, founding member of the R&B group Tony! Toni! Tone!, has died at 64

Wiggins died Friday morning after battling bladder cancer for over the past year, according to a statement released by his family on social media.

March 08, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Roy Ayers poses for a portrait in 1970.

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Roy Ayers, whose 'Everybody Loves The Sunshine' charmed generations, dies at 84

The vibraphonist, composer and jazz-funk pioneer helped inspire the neo-soul movement, and his best-known song was sampled over 100 times.

March 05, 2025
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  • Lars Gotrich
Dolly Parton performs during an event in August 2023 celebrating the Kansas statewide expansion of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in Overland Park, Kan. Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday in Nashville, Tenn., at age 82.

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Carl Dean, Dolly Parton's husband of nearly 60 years who inspired 'Jolene,' dies at 82

"Words can't do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years," Parton wrote in a statement.

March 04, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Angie Stone, pictured at the 2009 Soul Train Awards in Atlanta, died in a car accident on Saturday.

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Angie Stone, soul singer who broke ground in hip-hop, dies at 63

Stone, a Grammy-nominated R&B singer who rose to fame in the late 1970s, was known for hits like "No More Rain" and "Wish I Didn't Miss You." She was killed in a road collision in Alabama on Saturday.

March 03, 2025
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  • Kristin Wright
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