Tag: Obituaries

Officials say China's most prominent political prisoner, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, has died. He was 61. People place flowers and light candles in front of a picture of Liu Xiaobo. (Audun Braastad/NTB scanpix via AP)

National Security

Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo dies in Chinese custody

Joel Gehrke · July 13, 2017 6:00 pm

Longtime D.C. Council member Jim Graham died last week at 71. (Screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

Jim Graham, more and less

Bill Myers · June 21, 2017 12:59 pm

President Trump said Tuesday Otto Warmbier, the American college student held captive by North Korea, should have been brought home by the U.S. months earlier. (Olivier Douliery/Bloomberg)

Trump swipes at Obama: Otto Warmbier ‘should have been brought home a long time ago’

Sarah Bedford · June 20, 2017 3:45 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: R.I.P. Adam West

Washington Examiner · June 16, 2017 9:00 pm

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega died late Monday at age 83. Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela wrote in his Twitter account that "the death of Manuel A. Noriega closes a chapter in our history." (AP Photo/John Hopper, File)

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega dies at 83

Associated Press · May 30, 2017 11:44 am

Bunning played in Major League Baseball from 1955 to 1971, during which he won 224 games and pitched a rare perfect game in 1964. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Former US senator and pitcher Jim Bunning dies at the age of 85

Daniel Chaitin · May 27, 2017 8:06 pm

His influence spanned several decades, and I was one of several Presidents who benefited from his wisdom and counsel," Obama said in a statement Saturday. (AP Photo/Ira Schwarz)

National Security

Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush offer praise to the late Zbigniew Brzezinski

Daniel Chaitin · May 27, 2017 12:19 pm

His daughter Mika, co-host of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" made the announcement late Friday in a post on Instagram. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)

Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, has died

Daniel Chaitin · May 27, 2017 2:54 am

In Memoriam: Peter Augustine Lawler

Dan Alban · May 23, 2017 10:55 pm

The Ziegfeld of Political Theater

Andrew Ferguson · May 19, 2017 6:24 am

The Ziegfeld of Political Theater

Andrew Ferguson · May 19, 2017 6:15 am

Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly blamed "hatred" for causing the death of Fox News founder Roger Ailes. (AP Photo/Peter Kramer)

Bill O’Reilly: ‘Hatred’ killed Roger Ailes

Daniel Chaitin · May 18, 2017 11:21 pm