Tens of thousands of people will descend on Arizona this weekend for the funeral of Charlie Kirk.
The service, which will be held in a 60,000-seat stadium in Glendale will be attended by President Trump, JD Vance and a number of senior White House officials.
Robert Redford, the big-screen charmer turned Oscar-winning director whose hit movies often helped America make sense of itself and who, off screen, evangelized for environmental causes and fostered the Sundance-centered independent film movement, died early Tuesday morning at his home in Utah. He was 89.
Ken Dryden, the Hall of Fame goaltender whose long resume in and out of hockey included six Stanley Cup victories and helping backstop Canada’s generation-defining victory at the 1972 Summit Series, died Friday at the age of 78 after a battle with cancer.
A key member of the Montreal Canadiens’ 1970s dynasty, Dryden’s career in the spotlight was only just getting started when he retired from the game — and while at the top of his own game — in his early 30s.
Ronnie Rondell Jr – who was famously set alight for the front cover of Pink Floyd’s iconic Wish You Were Here album cover – has died at the age of 88.
The Hollywood stuntman and actor died on 12 August at a care home in the US state of Missouri, according to an online obituary.
Captain Rolfe Monteith, of the Royal Canadian Navy, who has died aged 101, was one of the teenage Dominion volunteers who crossed the Atlantic to serve in the Second World War, and one of the last survivors of the wartime Arctic convoys.
Inspired by family holidays in Charlottetown on Prince Edward Island, young Monteith was eager to go to sea. In 1941, aged 17, he volunteered for the Royal Canadian Navy and soon found himself on his first Atlantic crossing – not yet in uniform – aboard the armed merchant cruiser Laconia with convoy HX 147. The voyage was perilous, passing through wreckage from convoy SC 42, which had recently been mauled by German U-boats off Greenland.
Loni Anderson has died, just days before her 80th birthday.
The actress’ longtime publicist, Cheryl J. Kagan, said she died at a Los Angeles hospital following a “prolonged” illness, per the Associated Press.
“We are heartbroken to announce the passing of our dear wife, mother and grandmother,” Anderson’s family said in a statement.
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Two-time WWE Hall of Famer and former world champion Hulk Hogan, whose real name was Terry Gene Bollea, died Thursday at the age of 71, according to Clearwater, Florida, police and World Wrestling Entertainment.
“WWE is saddened to learn WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan has passed away,” the company said. “One of pop culture’s most recognizable figures, Hogan helped WWE achieve global recognition in the 1980s. WWE extends its condolences to Hogan’s family, friends, and fans.”
the faces and tears of everyone singing along https://t.co/k2O1xjZtNn
— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) July 22, 2025
Heavy metal star Ozzy Osbourne has died, just weeks after reuniting with his Black Sabbath bandmates and performing a huge farewell concert for fans.
In a statement, his family said: “It is with more sadness than mere words can convey that we have to report that our beloved Ozzy Osbourne has passed away this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love.”
h/t Patti Jo & XC
Jimmy Swaggart, an itinerant Louisiana preacher who became one of the most popular and polarizing Christian televangelists of his generation before a sex scandal — etched in public memory by his tear-streaked televised confession — consigned him to relative obscurity, died July 1. He was 90.
His death was announced in a statement by Jimmy Swaggart Ministries, which did not share additional details. His son Donnie Swaggart, a fellow pastor, said on June 15 that his father went into cardiac arrest and was hospitalized in Baton Rouge.
Mr. Swaggart was one of a handful of televangelists who rose to global prominence in the second half of the 20th century, among them Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, and Jerry Falwell.
Brian Wilson, the co-founder and primary songwriter of the Beach Boys, has died, his family announced. While an official cause of death was not disclosed, the beloved musical auteur, who helped pioneer the studio-as-instrument, influencing generations of musicians in pop and beyond, was revealed in early 2024 to be living with a neurocognitive disorder akin to dementia. Wilson was 82 years old.
Loretta Swit, the actress and animal activist forever known for her pioneering turn as the disciplined Maj. Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on the acclaimed CBS sitcom M*A*S*H, has died. She was 87.
According to a police report, Swit died just after midnight Friday of suspected natural causes at her home in New York City, her publicist, Harlan Boll, announced.
h/t Patti Jo
One of the great Americans of our age, David Horowitz, died on Tuesday at the age of 86.
David Horowitz was one of the towering intellects and most perceptive thinkers of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first; he was also a man of unusual courage and remarkable vision. Though few people today realize it, David Horowitz was also one of the most influential people of our time, as he was one of the first leftists of any prominence to leave the leftist ranks and become a stalwart warrior for freedom.
Kathy wrote for Frontpage.
Oleg Gordievsky, the long-standing KGB double agent who defected to Britain, has died aged 86.
Gordievsky was said to be Britain’s most valuable spy in living memory inside Russia’s intelligence agencies.
Counter-terrorism police are assisting the coroner, but his death is not being treated as suspicious.
George Foreman, heavyweight boxing icon and business entrepreneur, died on Friday night.
He was 76 years old.
The International Boxing Hall of Famer’s family announced the news on his Instagram page.
Can you still get his Grill?
h/t Mauser.
