Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman to sit on US Supreme Court, dies at 93 | Courts News

Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman to sit on US Supreme Court, dies at 93 | Courts News

The former justice served from 1981 until 2006, during a time of transition for the nation’s highest court. Former US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a pivotal figure on the nation’s highest court during a period of transformation and the first woman appointed to that role, has died at…

Shane MacGowan, poetic, hard-charging frontman of The Pogues, dies at 65 | Music News

Shane MacGowan, poetic, hard-charging frontman of The Pogues, dies at 65 | Music News

MacGowan won fame for incorporating traditional Irish ballads into Britain’s punk scene in the 1980s and 90s. Shane MacGowan, who galvanised Britain’s punk scene with his incorporation of Irish traditional ballads into that genre in the late 1980s, has died at 65. MacGowan’s wife Victoria Mary Clarke released a statement…

Henry Kissinger: Nobel Prize-winning ‘warmonger’ has died at age 100 | Obituaries News

Henry Kissinger: Nobel Prize-winning ‘warmonger’ has died at age 100 | Obituaries News

New York, United States – Few Nobel Peace Prize winners are called warmongers, but the gravelly-voiced, enigmatic diplomat Henry Kissinger was. The contradictions of Kissinger, who died on Wednesday at home in Connecticut at age 100, do not end there. An academic who became a celebrity, Kissinger was a Jewish…

Terry Venables, ex England, Spurs and Barcelona manager, dies aged 80 | Football News

Terry Venables, ex England, Spurs and Barcelona manager, dies aged 80 | Football News

Venables, who guided England to the Euro 96 semifinals and Barcelona to the 1986 European Cup final, died after a long illness. Terry Venables, the former manager of England’s national football team, Tottenham Hotspur and Barcelona, has died aged 80 after an illness, his family said. Venables guided England to…

Former US Rep. Pat Schroeder, a trailblazer for women’s rights, dies at 82
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Former US Rep. Pat Schroeder, a trailblazer for women’s rights, dies at 82

Former US Rep. Pat Schroeder, an outspoken feminist icon over her two decades in Congress, died Monday night. She was 82. Schroeder, who recently suffered a stroke, died at a Florida hospital, her former press secretary said. The former lawmaker was remembered for taking on her male colleagues as a…

Instagram influencer Núbia Cristina Braga gunned down at home
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Instagram influencer Núbia Cristina Braga gunned down at home

Popular Brazilian beauty influencer Núbia Cristina Braga has been shot to death outside her house by motorcycle gunmen, who later fled the scene. The grisly case came to light after the bombshell, who boasted nearly 60,000 Instagram followers, was discovered dead at her home in the Santa Maria neighborhood of…