Calling her an inspiration, President Barack Obama has just announced that former Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Eight months after revealing her diagnosis with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, Summitt stepped down yesterday. Summitt, who led the Tennessee Lady Vols to eight national championships and whose 1,098 victories are [...]

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Another child of a political figure has died at the age of 51.  Kara Kennedy, daughter of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, died of a heart attack yesterday. Kennedy had the attack after her normal daily workout, according to a statement. She was the only daughter of Senator Kennedy, who himself died in 2009. That [...]

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Former first lady Betty Ford has died at the age of 93. The director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum says that the widow of late President Gerald Ford and co-founder of the world-renowned Betty Ford Center in California has died. Betty Ford served as the First Lady of the United States [...]

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