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USC assistant football coach Dave Nichol dies at 45
By GREG BEACHAM - AP Sports Writer
Fri,03/25/22-7:09PM , 1,136 Reads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California assistant football coach Dave Nichol died Friday in McKinney, Texas. He was 45.

A person with knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press that Nichol had cancer. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the cause of death wasn't being publicly disclosed.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright is surrounded by reporters as she arrives Feb. 25, 1996, for United Nations Security Council consultations concerning the downing of two U.S. civilian planes by Cuban jets over waters north of Cuba. Albright is being remembered as a woman of conviction and determination who liked to say she told things like they were and not the way she might like them to be. Albright died of cancer Wednesday, March 23, 2022, at the age of 84. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

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Memories of Albright: A legacy of bluntness and conviction
By MATTHEW LEE - AP Diplomatic Writer
Thu,03/24/22-1:02PM , 285 Reads
The last full working day of Bill Clinton’s presidency ended with a dreary Washington winter afternoon. Wind-swept rain and sleet pounded on the windows of Madeleine Albright’s seventh-floor office at the State Department, obscuring her usually clear view of the Lincoln Memorial.
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This photo provided by Webby Awards, Stephen Wilhite accepts his Webby lifetime achievement award on May 2013 in New York. Wihite, he inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. His wife, Kathaleen, said Thursday, March 24, 2022, in a phone interview that he died of COVID on March 14. (Webby Awards via AP)

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Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the meme-favorite GIF, has died
By TALI ARBEL - AP Technology Writer
Thu,03/24/22-10:21AM , 242 Reads
Stephen Wilhite, the inventor of the internet-popular short-video format, the GIF, has died. He was 74.

His wife, Kathaleen, said Thursday in a phone interview that he died of COVID on March 14.
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U.S. ambassador Madeleine Albright speaks to the Security Council on May 7, 1994. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)

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Albright fled the Nazis, climbed to the summit of diplomacy
By MATTHEW LEE - AP Diplomatic Writer
Wed,03/23/22-3:47PM , 213 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — Madeleine Albright fled the Nazis as a child and climbed to the summit of diplomacy and foreign policy in the United States, breaking the glass ceiling as the first female secretary of state and setting the pace for other women to
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