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Joseph Lieberman, a former Connecticut senator who became the first Jewish American to be nominated on a major party’s ticket, died at 82 years old. According to a statement from his family, Lieberman died following complications from a fall. His family said in a statement, “Former United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman died this afternoon,…

“Babar” author Laurent de Brunhoff, who revived his father’s popular picture book series about an elephant king and presided over its rise to a global multimedia franchise, has died at 98 years old. De Brunhoff, a Paris native who moved to the United States in the 1980s, died at his home in Key West, Florida,…

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Pepperdine University has inaugurated the “Our Four Angels Endowed Scholarship” in memory of four students who died in a tragic accident on the Pacific Coast Highway in California last October. The new scholarship hopes to support students at Seaver College, the Christian institution’s undergraduate school. In a statement, the university said that the scholarship was…

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A man who set the Guinness World Record for living the longest time in an iron lung spoke about the love of God his family showed him before his death at 78. For over 70 years, Paul Alexander had been confined to the larger cylindrical mechanical ventilator that used air pressure to help him breathe…

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