Veteran political reporter Pat Heffernan dies
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SARASOTA, Florida  - Veteran journalist John W. "Pat" Heffernan, the only foreigner to have been president of the prestigious National Press Club in Washington, died on Tuesday after a brief illness, friends said. He was 96.
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Leading politicians have paid their respects to BBC journalist Nick Clarke, who died aged 58 after a lengthy battle against cancer.
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Former Texas Governor Ann Richards, who   sparred with former President George H.W. Bush and later lost   the state's top job to his son, President George W. Bush, died   on Wednesday. She was 73.
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A senior journalist was killed in northern Sherpur town of Bogra district early Sunday by unknown assailants. Dipamkar Chakraborty, the executive editor of a newspaper The Durjoy
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Gerald M. Boyd, a former managing editor of The New York Times who was forced to resign amid a reporter's plagiarizing scandal, has died. He was 56.
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CHICAGO -- A Chicago Tribune editor who was on the Vietnam mission for which John Kerry received the Silver Star is backing up Kerry&#39;s account of the incident.
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Lester Tanzer, 75, a longtime Washington journalist who was managing editor of US News &amp; World Report for nine years, died Dec. 8 at his home in Arlington.
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Pierre Salinger, President John F. Kennedy&#39;s press secretary and later ABC&#39;s European correspondent, has died of h Salinger, who had been in declining health for four years
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Former NFL fullback Craig &quot;Ironhead&quot; Heyward died Saturday after a 7 1/2-year fight with a recurring brain tumor, his son&#039;s high school football coach said. He was 39.
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Pham Xuan An, a Vietnamese spy who worked   for Reuters and Time magazine in Saigon during the U.S. war in   Vietnam, died on Wednesday after a long illness, a government   official said. He was 78.
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Respected Mexican journalist  Jesus Blancornelas, often threatened and once shot for  campaigning against violent drug traffickers on the U.S.  border, died of a long-term illness on Thursday aged 70.
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John Deardourff, a pioneering political consultant who specialized in working for moderate Republican candidates, including former President Ford, died of cancer Friday at his suburban McLean, Va., home. He was 61.
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, who became the most powerful Republican woman in Washington state history during six terms representing Seattle's east-side suburbs, died Wednesday after developing a blood clot in her Virginia apartment, her family said. She was 66.
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Former Rep. Jennifer Dunn, R-Wash. who represented Seattle's conservative east-side suburbs for six terms in Congress, died Wednesday, her family said. She was 66.
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Maxwell McCrohon, who arrived in the United States as an aspiring foreign correspondent and went on to lead the Chicago Tribune and United Press International, has died. He was 76.
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Helen Copley, former chairman of  privately held newspaper chain the Copley Press and publisher  of the San Diego Union-Tribune, has died at the age of 81, the  newspaper said on Thursday.
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The TV star and former Senator ends a run for the Presidency that was scuttled by the candidate's own apparent apathy