Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, had been a leading Republican voice for years.
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Madawaska man died after being shocked by downed power line
Curtis Levesque was a passenger in a vehicle that crashed in Frenchville which knocked down a utility pole. He tripped over the downed line when trying to exit the vehicle.
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‘Speed Racer’ actor Christian Oliver and his 2 daughters died in plane crash, police say
The crash occurred Thursday just west of Petit Nevis island near Bequia as the plane headed for nearby St. Lucia, police said in a statement.
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Hundreds of convictions, but a major mystery is still unsolved 3 years after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Authorities are still working to identify more than 80 people wanted for acts of violence at the Capitol and to find out who placed pipe bombs outside the Republican and Democratic national committees’ offices the day before the Capitol attack.
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Hezbollah leader says his group must retaliate for suspected Israeli strike in Beirut
A presumed Israeli strike hit a Beirut neighborhood this week, killing a senior Hamas official.
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David Soul, actor who portrayed the blond half of TV’s ‘Starsky and Hutch,’ dies at 80
Soul portrayed detective Ken ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson alongside dark-haired Paul Michael Glaser as detective David Starsky in ‘Starsky & Hutch,’ which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1979.
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Biden administration cuts $2 million for student loan servicers after bungled return to repayment
The Education Department said Friday it will withhold payments from Aidvantage, EdFinancial and Nelnet for failing to meet their contractual obligations.
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Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II to step down from throne on Jan. 14
Denmark has Europe’s oldest ruling monarchy, which traces its line back to the Viking king Gorm the Old, who died in 958.
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Shecky Greene, legendary standup comic, improv master and lord of Las Vegas, dies at 97
Those who saw Greene in his decades of comedy dominance on the Vegas Strip in the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s said that with a mic in his hand, he could roam a room and work a crowd like no other.
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North Korea leader vows to launch more spy satellites and produce more nuclear materials in 2024
Kim called for ‘the overwhelming war response capability’ to deter potential enemy provocations, Korean Central News Agency said.