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Actor Michael Madsen was found unresponsive Thursday morning, following a cardiac arrest.

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Actor Michael Madsen, known for 'Kill Bill' and 'Reservoir Dogs,' dead at 67

His representatives confirmed that his death followed a cardiac arrest this morning.

July 03, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
GPB News NPR

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Remembering veteran PBS newscaster Bill Moyers

Moyers, who died June 26, worked as a special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson before becoming an award-winning journalist and PBS host. Originally broadcast in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2017.

July 01, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
The Rev. Jimmy Swaggart gestures with the Bible at the Los Angeles Sports Arena during a service in Los Angeles in 1987.

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Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart dies at age 90

Jimmy Swaggart, one of the most well-known televangelists of the 1980s, has died, according to a social media post from his ministry.

July 01, 2025
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  • Bob Smietana
GPB News NPR

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Remembering war correspondent Rod Nordland

After surviving many close calls as a war correspondent, Norland was diagnosed with a lethal brain tumor in 2019. He died June 22. In this 2024 interview, he reflected on facing mortality.

June 27, 2025
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  • Terry Gross
Musician Lalo Schifrin poses during the opening night of the 2018 COLCOA (City of Lights, City of Angels) French Film Festival.<br><br>

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'Mission: Impossible' composer Lalo Schifrin dies at 93

Argentine pianist and composer Lalo Schifrin, best known for his scores for Mission: Impossible and more than 200 other films and TV shows, including Bullitt, Mannix and Cool Hand Luke, has died.

June 26, 2025
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  • Bob Mondello
White House press secretary Bill Moyers appears at a press briefing at White House in Washington on Feb. 25, 1966.

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Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary turned acclaimed TV journalist, dead at 91

Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, has died at 91.

June 26, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel at the piano, circa 1970. He died Tuesday at his home in London at age 94.

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Alfred Brendel, the cerebral pianist with a dry wit, dies at 94

Routinely called a "musician's musician," the pianist had an atypical career that even he called mysterious. He spent it returning to a handful of favorite composers, with acclaimed results.

June 20, 2025
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  • Jeff Lunden
Chef Anne Burrell attends City Harvest Presents The 2025 Gala: Carnaval, on April 22, 2025, in New York.

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Anne Burrell, TV chef who coached the 'Worst Cooks in America,' dies at 55

TV chef Anne Burrell, who coached culinary fumblers through hundreds of episodes of "Worst Cooks in America," has died. Medical examiners are set to determine what caused her death.

June 18, 2025
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Brian Wilson in 1965.

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Brian Wilson, the troubled genius behind The Beach Boys, has died at age 82

The Beach Boys' co-founder, songwriter and producer transformed pop music into high art and became America's answer to The Beatles' Lennon and McCartney in the process.

June 12, 2025
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  • Ann Powers and
  • Chloe Veltman
The Family Stone performs at Harvard Stadium in 1969.

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Sly Stone, visionary funk frontman of the Family Stone, has died at age 82

The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s.

June 10, 2025
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  • Brandon Gates
British author Frederick Forsyth poses for a photograph in Hertford, England, Aug. 17, 2006.

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'Day of the Jackal' author Frederick Forsyth dies at 86

Born in 1938, Forsyth served as a Royal Air Force pilot before becoming a journalist. He covered the attempted assassination of French President Charles de Gaulle, which inspired The Day of the Jackal.

June 10, 2025
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Edmund White at his home in 2019.

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Edmund White, who broke ground in gay literature, has died at 85

Many of White's books chronicled his own experiences as a gay man, making an indelible impression on gay culture and how LGBTQ experiences were understood more broadly at the dawning of the AIDS health crisis.

June 04, 2025
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  • Neda Ulaby
Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is shown standing outside the Federal Court in Washington, June 4, 2009.

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Bernard Kerik, who led NYPD on 9/11 before prison and pardon, has died at 69

Kerik, an Army veteran, was hailed as a hero after the 9/11 attack and eventually nominated to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, before a dramatic fall from grace that ended with him behind bars.

May 30, 2025
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  • The Associated Press
Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a champion of local African languages.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan literary giant who fought colonialism, dies at 87

The Kenyan author championed local African languages and was imprisoned for his work. His name was often mentioned in discussions about the Nobel Prize in Literature.

May 29, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong
President John Tyler, circa 1860-1865. His last surviving grandchild, Harrison Ruffin Tyler, died on Sunday.

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Harrison Ruffin Tyler, grandson of the 10th U.S. president, dies at 96

Harrison Ruffin Tyler was just three generations from the White House, since his father and grandfather both fathered children in their 70s. The chemical engineer helped preserve his family's legacy.

May 29, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
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