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Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is dead

Rush Limbaugh, the conservative commentator whose fiery rhetoric forged a new landscape for talk radio and inflamed the partisan divide ...

Bernard Cohen, age 68, a civil liberties attorney, is Dead

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October 18, 2020

Bernard Cohen was a civil liberties attorney and Democratic member of the Virginia House of Delegates; he died at age 68. On April 10, 1967, with ...

Dead at 70 is Linda Tripp, the whistleblower in the Bill Clinton impeachment

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April 26, 2020

Linda Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with White House intern Monica Lewinsky led to the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton, died ...

Lynn Cohen, an actor, best known for playing the plainspoken housekeeper and nanny Magda in Sex and the City, has died. She was 86. Cohen died on Friday in New York City, said her manager, Josh Pultz. Additional details were not immediately available. A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Cohen had a long and diverse career as a stage, film and television performer. Her dozens of credits ranged from Nurse Jackie and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to the feature films Across the Universe and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. In HBO's Sex and City, Cohen's character was used by attorney Miranda Hobbes, played by Cynthia Nixon. Magda was featured in the TV and movie versions of the popular show, which also starred Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, and Kim Cattrall. Life and career - Lynn Cohen Lynn Cohen born on August 10, 1933, and died February 14, 2020. She was an American actress, best known for playing Magda in the HBO series Sex and the City and the 2008 film of the same name, as well as its 2010 sequel, and Mags in Cohen was born as Lynn Harriette Kay in Kansas City, Missouri, and was Jewish. She began her career appearing on the Off-Broadway productions as of the 1970s, receiving Drama League Award and Lucille Lortel Awards nominations. Cohen's first notable film role was in the 1993 comedy Manhattan Murder Mystery. From 1993 to 2006, she played Judge Elizabeth Mizener in the NBC drama series Law & Order, appearing total in 12 episodes. She also guest-starred on NYPD Blue, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and had a recurring role on Damages. From 2000 to 2004, Cohen had a recurring role as Magda in the HBO comedy series, Sex, and the City. She reprised her role in the 2008 film of the same name, as well as its 2010 sequel. Cohen also appeared in the movies Munich (2005) playing Golda Meir, Vanya on 42nd Street, Synecdoche, New York, Eagle Eye, and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. According to her manager Josh Pultz, Cohen died on February 14, 2020, in New York. The cause of death not yet known at the time of post this story.

Lynn Cohen, the actor, best known as Magda in Sex and the City, dies aged 86

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February 16, 2020

Lynn Cohen, an actor, best known for playing the plainspoken housekeeper and nanny Magda in Sex and the City, has ...

Pittsburgh Jewish Community Mourns 11 death in a Mass Shooting

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October 29, 2018

Pittsburgh Jewish community mourns the senseless killing of 11 members of their religious faith. Synagogue shooting survivors recount terror as ...

Janet Reno, First Woman to Serve as US Attorney General, Dies

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November 7, 2016

Janet Reno, the former US attorney general under President Bill Clinton, died following a long battle with Parkinson's disease. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vVl8rYUcII

B.B. King, Blues Legend, Dead at 89

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June 10, 2019

B.B. King the legend remember! B.B. King, the larger-than-life guitarist and singer who helped popularize electric blues and brought it ...

R.I.P. Actor James Avery dies at 68

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June 20, 2019

James Avery, the actor who played the family patriarch on NBC’s long-running The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, died December 31 ...

Actor Dennis Farina dies

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June 21, 2019

(CNN) -- Dennis Farina, the well-known film and TV character actor with the distinctive Chicago accent, has died, his representative ...

Former NDC general manager passes on

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June 22, 2019

Dominica News Online has received information that former general manager of the National Development Corporation, now Invest Dominica Authority, Kenny ...