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Steve Cropper, Guitarist, Songwriter and Shaper of Memphis Soul Music, Dies at 84

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:01:35 +0000

As a member of Booker T. & the MG’s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ’70s.

Yegor Ligachev, Gorbachev’s No. 2 Who Turned Foe, Is Dead at 100

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:55:36 +0000

As the Kremlin’s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss’s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order.

Eugene Hasenfus, Gunrunner Who Exposed Iran-Contra Plot, Dies at 84

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 07:37:46 +0000

He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.