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The year in review: Influential people who died in 2024

Dec. 27, 2024 11:42 AM EST

It was a murder case almost everyone had an opinion on. O.J. Simpson 's “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement in America and brought an intersection of sports, crime, entertainment and class that was hard to...

Biden eulogizes Ethel Kennedy as 'hero' who put her own stamp on country

Oct. 16, 2024 18:46 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden eulogized the late Ethel Kennedy in deeply personal terms at a memorial service Wednesday, hailing the wife of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy as “a hero in her own right, full of character, full of integrity and empathy" who helped him through one of the...

RFK Jr. suggests he'll have a significant role on agriculture and health policy if Trump is elected

Oct. 15, 2024 17:17 PM EDT

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is suggesting he will have significant influence on American agriculture policy if Donald Trump is elected president, the latest in a series of roles he has envisioned for himself in a second Trump administration. Kennedy, an anti-vaccine activist and...

Members of the Kennedy family gather for funeral of Ethel Kennedy

Oct. 14, 2024 16:53 PM EDT

CENTERVILLE, Mass. (AP) — Members of the Kennedy family gathered Monday for the funeral of Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Ethel Kennedy, who raised their 11 children after her husband was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes and the...

Ethel Kennedy, social activist and wife of Robert F. Kennedy, has died

Oct. 10, 2024 23:57 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — Ethel Kennedy, the wife of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who raised their 11 children after he was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes and the family’s legacy for decades thereafter, died on Thursday, her family said. She was 96. “It is with our hearts...

PHOTO COLLECTION: Obit Ethel Kennedy

Oct. 10, 2024 18:33 PM EDT
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Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, has died at 96, her family says

Oct. 10, 2024 11:31 AM EDT
BOSTON (AP) — Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, has died at 96, her family says.

Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy, suffers stroke

Oct. 09, 2024 12:12 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — The family of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy, says she's been hospitalized after suffering a stroke. In a statement on X posted Tuesday night by her daughter Kerry Kennedy, the family said it happened Thursday morning in her sleep and that she was...