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Chuck Woolery hosts a special premiere of the "$250,000 Game Show Spectacular" at the Las Vegas Hilton on Oct. 13, 2007, in Las Vegas. Ronda Churchill/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP hide caption

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Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olson speaks, with DACA recipient Greisa Martinez Rosa, left, and former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, right, after leaving the Supreme Court after oral arguments were heard in the case of President Trump's decision to end the Obama-era, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Nov. 12, 2019. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption

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Former Solicitor General Ted Olson has died

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Roy Haynes, performing at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2002. Peter Van Breukelen/Redferns hide caption

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Roy Haynes has died at age 99

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Home Depot co-founder and then-CEO Bernie Marcus poses for a portrait at a store in 1998. Erik Lesser/Liaison via Getty Images hide caption

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Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus died this week at the age of 95

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Teri Garr speaks at the 15th Annual Race to Erase MS event on May 2, 2008 in Los Angeles, Calif. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images hide caption

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TERI GARR OBIT

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Actress Mitzi Gaynor poses in her apartment in Beverly Hills, Calif., on May 26, 2021. Gaynor, among the last survivors of the so-called golden age of the Hollywood musical, died of natural causes in Los Angeles on Thursday. She was 93. Mark J. Terrill/AP hide caption

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Liam Payne, seen here at the 2023 premiere of the film All of These Voices, a documentary about his One Direction band mate Louis Tomlinson. Kate Green/Getty Images hide caption

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Liam Payne, former member of One Direction, dies at 31

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President Barack Obama stands with Lilly Ledbetter before signing the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act during an event in the East Room of the White House on Jan. 29, 2009. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption

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Lilly Ledbetter obit

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Ethel Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is shown July 27, 1970. AP/AP hide caption

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ESSAY 10-12-24

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Ethel Kennedy poses for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 22, 2012, in Park City, Utah. The Kennedy matriarch died Thursday at age 96. Victoria Will/AP hide caption

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Classical music producer Adam Abeshouse was diagnosed with bile duct cancer last spring. His clients — including Simone Dinnerstein, Jeremy Denk, Joshua Bell and Lara Downes — organized a concert at his home studio to bid farewell. Rick Marino/Abeshouse Productions hide caption

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Former Boston Red Sox great Luis Tiant before Game 5 of the American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros on Oct. 20, 2021, at Fenway Park in Boston. Winslow Townson/AP hide caption

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