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James Harrison looks at 8-month-old Layla and her mother, Beth Ismay, in Sydney, Australia, in May 2018. It was the last time Harrison donated blood.

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James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died

Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.

March 03, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
Alicia Keys, right, and Angie Stone, perform "America the Beautiful" during the NBA All-Star game in Philadelphia, Feb. 10, 2002.

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Tributes pour in for R&B singer Angie Stone after her death at 63 in a highway crash

Fans are remembering R&B singer Angie Stone after her death at 63 in a weekend crash on a highway in Alabama while returning from a performance. The Grammy-nominated singer was a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence and known for the hit song "Wish I Didn't Miss You."

March 03, 2025
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  • Associated Press and
  • GPB News Staff
David Johansen as Buster Poindexter performs onstage at The Daily Front Row's celebration of the 10th Anniversary of <em>CBS Watch! Magazine </em>in New York City on Feb. 9, 2016. Johansen died Friday at age 75.

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David Johansen, who fronted the New York Dolls, dies at 75

Johansen, a pioneer in punk music who found solo success under the moniker Buster Poindexter, died on Friday. His family announced last month that he had been in treatment for advanced stage cancer.

March 03, 2025
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  • Annie Zaleski
Martin Marty, noted scholar of American religion.

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Martin Marty, leading scholar of American religion, dies at 97

Martin Marty, one of the foremost interpreters of religion in American public life, died on Tuesday. He was 97 years old.

February 27, 2025
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  • Jason DeRose
"It's always more fun to play heavy than it is to play a good guy," Gene Hackman told <em>Fresh Air</em>'s Terry Gross.

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Gene Hackman, who thrived playing the tough guy, dies at 95

Hackman epitomized a 1970s, edgy, tightly wound masculinity. He appeared in more than 100 movies and TV shows, and won Oscars for his performances in The French Connection and Unforgiven.

February 27, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
Michelle Trachtenberg starred as Georgina on the CW show <em>Gossip Girl</em> and Dawn in the <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer </em>series. She's pictured above in 2015.

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Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, of 'Harriet the Spy' and 'Gossip Girl' dies at 39

The actress was found dead in an apartment in Manhattan on Wednesday, police said.

February 26, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
President John F. Kennedy slumps down in the back seat of the presidential limousine as it speeds along Elm Street toward the Stemmons Freeway overpass in Dallas, Texas, after being fatally shot, Nov. 22, 1963. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy leans over the president as Secret Service Agent Clint Hill pushes her back to her seat.

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Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who tried to shield the Kennedys, dies at 93

Hill received Secret Service awards and was promoted for his actions that day, but for decades blamed himself for Kennedy's death, saying he would gladly have given his life to save the president.

February 25, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Roberta Flack performs at the San Sebastian Jazz Festival in Spain in 2005.

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Roberta Flack, singer of 'Killing Me Softly,' has died at age 88

The Grammy Award-winning artist and educator had shared an ALS diagnosis in 2022. She was best known for ballads such as "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face."

February 24, 2025
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  • Marissa Lorusso and
  • Elizabeth Blair
Tom Robbins, at a 2014 reading of his memoir<em> Tibetan Peach Pie</em> at Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing in Beaverton, Ore.

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Bestselling novelist Tom Robbins dies at 92

Robbins dazzled readers with the whimsy and imagination in his books, including Jitterbug Perfume, Skinny Legs and All and Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

February 09, 2025
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  • Tom Vitale
Horst Koehler, Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations to the parties to the conflict in Western Sahara, arrives for a round table on Western Sahara at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 05, 2018.

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Former German President Horst Köhler dies at 81

Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about the country's military, has died at 81.

February 01, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
English singer Marianne Faithfull in her Kensington flat in 1965.

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Marianne Faithfull, '60s icon and evolving pop star, has died at 78

The 1964 hit "As Tears Go By," penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, made her a star, but Marianne Faithfull demonstrated a remarkable ability to change with the times.

January 31, 2025
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  • Annie Zaleski
Dick Button smiles next to a painting of him while honored at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018.

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Dick Button, Olympic great and voice of skating, dies at 95

The winner of two Olympic gold medals and five consecutive world championships, Button died Thursday in North Salem, New York, at age 95.

January 30, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Garth Hudson performs in 2012 at the Love For Levon benefit concert in East Rutherford, N.J., a memorial tribute to his bandmate Levon Helm.

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  • Music

Garth Hudson, The Band's last founding member, dies at 87

The Canadian musician played keyboard, organ and saxophone on some of group's most memorable songs.

January 24, 2025
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  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
In this file photo, then-Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards speaks during a rally opposing repeal of the Affordable Care Act outside of the Capitol Building on July 27, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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Former head of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards has died

Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.

January 21, 2025
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  • Sarah McCammon
<em>Jules Feiffer at work on proof sheets from his first book,</em> Sick, Sick, Sick <em>in New York in 1958.</em>

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Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and playwright, dies at 95

Feiffer was best known for illustrating the children's classic "The Phantom Tollbooth." His loopy lines left a lasting mark on art, literature and film.

January 21, 2025
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