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Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert departs the federal courthouse, in Chicago, June 2015.
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Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84
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ennis Hastert, whose political legacy as Congress' longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.
Ukrainian military medics treat a wounded Ukrainian soldier in the field hospital near the front line in the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia on Sept. 12. The vast majority of casualties take place in the so-called kill zone, a band about 10 to 20 miles wide on both sides of the front line, which stretches more than 700 miles from north to south.
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Drones buzz overhead, troops hunker underground in Ukraine's hellish kill zone
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