Fong, First Asian-American Senator, Dies
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Hiram L. Fong, a son of immigrants who overcame poverty to become a millionaire businessman and the first Asian-American elected to the U.S. Senate, died Wednesday. He was 97.
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The Philippine film legend who came close to defeating Gloria Arroyo in the presidential race in May died early today after suffering a stroke.
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Pham Xuan An, a reporter for TIME during the Vietnam War later revealed to be a communist agent, has died. TIME's former Saigon bureau chief remembers him
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Joseph Dorsey Jr., a boxer who won a 1957 legal fight against a Louisiana law that banned interracial bouts, has died at the age of 69.
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Philippine movie legend Fernando Poe Jr, who came close to defeating Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in May's presidential race, died on Tuesday after suffering a stroke, his spokeswoman and political supporters said.
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Fernando Poe Jr., a movie actor who almost defeated Philippine President Gloria Arroyo in this year&#39;s elections, was brought to his final resting place by hundreds of thousands of fans and supporters.
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US Representative Charlie Norwood of Georgia died of lung cancer, lawmaker Ileana Ros-Lehtinen announced on the floor of the House of Representatives.
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Political pioneer Shirley Chisholm,  the first African American woman elected to Congress and a  champion of women's rights, died on Saturday in Florida,  congressional officials said. She was 80.
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Philippine movie legend Fernando Poe Jr, who came close to defeating Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in May&#39;s presidential race, died on Tuesday after suffering a stroke, his spokeswoman and political supporters said.
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Former Senator and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, a courtly Texan who as the Democrats&#039; vice presidential nominee in 1988 famously told rival Dan Quayle he was &quot;no Jack Kennedy,&quot; died Tuesday. He was 85.
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Bloomberg - June 5 (Bloomberg) -- Wyoming Senator Craig Thomas, a Republican who first won election to Congress to replace Dick Cheney and went on to serve 18 years in the House and Senate, died last night after a battle with leukemia. He was 74.
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Rep. Robert T. Matsui of California, who spent time in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans as an infant during World War II and went on to serve 26 years in Congress, has died of complications from a rare disease, his family said Sunday.
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Filipinos mourned movie legend Fernando  Poe Jr, who died on Tuesday after the actor who nearly unseated  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in May's presidential election suffered  a stroke.
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Pioneering NASA engineer Maxime Faget, who designed the Project Mercury capsule that carried the first U.S. astronauts into space and worked on every subsequent manned spacecraft including the space shuttle, has died at the age of 83, NASA said on Sunday.
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Dr. John Barrasso began his rounds on Capitol Hill on Monday, learning how to be a senator. Barrasso, a conservative Republican surgeon who was until now a Wyoming state senator, was sworn in by Vice President Dick Cheney Monday afternoon. Gov. Dave Freudenthal selected him to fill the seat of Sen. Craig Thomas, who died June 4 while being treated for leukemia.
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Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, has died, his spokeswoman said Monday
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Vaughn Meader, who gained instant fame satirizing the presidency of John F. Kennedy in the multimillion-selling album "The First Family," only to have his star plummet when the president was assassinated, died Friday. He was 68.