Former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole died Sunday after months of treatment for Stage IV lung cancer, the Elizabeth Dole Foundation announced. He was 98. Dole grew up in Kansas during the Dust Bowl and suffered severe wounds fighting as an Army lieutenant in Italy during World War II. He went on to become one of the Republican Party's longest-serving leaders, spending a quarter-century in the Senate. He was the GOP's vice-presidential candidate in 1976, and its presidential nominee 20 years later. President Biden called Dole "an American statesman like few in our history. A war hero and among the greatest of the Greatest Generation." After retiring from politics, Dole focused on raising money for the World War II Memorial in Washington and welcomed veterans visiting the memorial on many weekends.
A Myanmar court on Monday sentenced ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 76, to four years in prison after finding her guilty of inciting unrest and other charges. The result of Suu Kyi's closed-door trial indicated that the military, which held the pro-democracy champion and Nobel laureate under house arrest for nearly two decades, plans to remove her entirely as a force in politics. Since Suu Kyi's trial wrapped up, the military government has filed a new corruption charge. The military is escalating its crackdown on people protesting the Feb. 1 coup against the civilian government. On Sunday, a military truck plowed into demonstrators in Yangon and soldiers...
HELENA, Mont. — Three Montana health care providers have been arrested for claiming health services that were never provided. The Department of Justice's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit revealed over ...