Hayden Panettiere, star of ‘Heroes’ and ‘Nashville,’ dies at 36
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hayden Panettiere, star of popular television series including “Heroes” and “Nashville,” has died. She…
Don Nelson, second-winningest NBA coach who won 5 titles as a Celtics player, dies at 86
Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history who won five championships as a player with the Boston…
Qatar’s former ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani has died
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, who as ruler of Qatar transformed…
Alex Zanardi, auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist, dies at 59
ROME (AP) — Alex Zanardi, the Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist whose career was marked by two…
US Rep. David Scott, Georgia Democrat, dies at 80
ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat and the first Black chairman of the House…
Romanian soccer great Mircea Lucescu has died at age 80
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Mircea Lucescu, the Romanian soccer great who was a serial trophy winner as a…
Ex-FBI chief Robert Mueller, who probed Russia-Trump campaign ties, dies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nation’s premier law enforcement agency…
German philosopher Jürgen Habermas dies at 96
BERLIN (AP) — Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s…
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead at 86
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades…
Czech Republic’s nuclear watchdog head Dana Drábová has died at 64
PRAGUE (AP) — Dana Drábová, the popular head of the Czech nuclear watchdog for more than a quarter…
Russell M. Nelson, oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dies
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Russell M. Nelson, the oldest-ever president of The Church of Jesus Christ of…
Assata Shakur, a fugitive Black liberation activist sought by US, dies in Cuba
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from…