Stern but lovable news show host John McLaughlin has died at the age of 89. He hosted his iconic, low-fi political talk show for 34 years. Now he is presiding over Pat Buchanan- Eleanor Clift shoutfests in heaven. “Bye BYE,” John.

The heavyweight champion greatest-of-all-time Muhammad Ali died early Saturday morning at age 74 after he was reportedly hospitalized with respiratory problems earlier this week.

The AP is reporting that an anonymous law enforcement source says tests confirm the widely held suspicion that Prince died due to an opioid overdose.

Today, authorities in Minnesota announced that an autopsy of Prince’s body was performed at 1 p.m. local time, upon which the late singer’s body was handed over to his family. Results of the of the exam, including toxicology tests, won’t be released for weeks, the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office said in a statement…

Anything anyone tried to do, Prince probably did better. This was true from beginning to end.

Prince Rogers Nelson spent years changing the world. Today, he left it. Even casual music listeners should mourn the void he leaves.

Prince Rogers Nelson, one of the greatest musicians in world history, has died at the age of 57, his publicist has confirmed. In a statement given to KTLA she said:

Just when you and the rest of our tired nation thought the greatest artisanal threats to America would come from garlic aioli, accent-wall paneling, and hand-cobbled baby booties made of sun-cured lamb jerky, a far graver specter is rising is rising in Europe: bean-to-bar bombmaking, brought to you by the humble…

Rob Ford, the former mayor of Toronto, died this morning at the age of 46, according to reports out of the city.

Today at a campaign stop in Melbourne, Fla., Marco Rubio compared the Republican presidential race to an internet comment section:

Former first lady Nancy Reagan reportedly died of heart failure on Sunday at the age of 94.

The late Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia died this week of a heart attack, according to his death certificate.

U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia was reportedly found dead “of natural causes” at a luxury resort in Texas on Saturday, according to The San Antonio Express-News.

Alan Rickman, the charismatic British character actor who played larger-than-life heroes, villains and Ronald Reagans throughout his 30-year film and stage career, has died from cancer. He was 69.

David Bowie’s perpetual stylistic reinvention (don’t call him a chameleon) became a standard many pop stars would come to adopt. To put his visionary genius in perspective, we assembled a reel of ‘70s and ‘80s TV clips, highlighting the ways in which Bowie’s shape-shifting tendencies were marveled at, questioned, and…

The paper’s sincere declaration that life can only improve once we’ve shuffled off this mortal coil has since been updated on its website, but the sentiment stands.

It’s official. David Bowie will never perform in Rochester again, in part because he is dead, but also because he never went back after he and Iggy Pop were arrested there for possession of marijuana in the 1970's.

Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Natalie Cole died in L.A. on Thursday at age 65, according to a statement from her family.

Stephen “Greg” Fisk, the newly-elected mayor of Juneau, was found dead in his home Monday afternoon. Cops haven’t said much about the 70-year-old politician’s cause of death, except to advise reporters that rumors he’d been assaulted are just “speculation” at this point.

Legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint died Tuesday morning after suffering a heart attack in Spain. He was 77.