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Ace Frehley, center, accepts an award with his Kiss bandmates during the 29th annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in New York, April 10, 2014. Frehley, the original lead guitarist of the band Kiss, who often performed in white-and-silver face makeup and sold millions of records during his two tenures with the band — from 1973 to 1982, and then from 1996 to 2002 — died on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in Morristown, N.J. He was 74. (Richard Perry/The New York Times)

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Joan Kennedy, left, with her husband at the time, Edward Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy at Metropolitan Opera opening at Lincoln Center in New York, Sept. 16, 1966. Joan Kennedy, who married into one of America’s foremost political dynasties and spent much of her life wrestling with alcoholism while caught up in the tragedies and tempests that stamped the Kennedy family, died on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2025, at her home in Boston. She was 89. (Allyn Baum/The New York Times)

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FILE PHOTO: English Dr. Jane Goodall, chimpanzee researcher and naturalist, observes through glass some of Taronga Zoo's 25 member chimpanzee colony in Sydney, August 31. Goodall, who has spent most of her life studying chimpanzees in Africa is in Australia to raise awareness that chimpanzee numbers in the wild have plummeted 75 percent in 10 years leaving only 250,000 in their homelands of Central and West Africa. AUSTRALIA/File Photo

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Director Robert Redford (R) and his wife Sibylle pose on the red carpet during a screening for the movie "The Company You Keep" at the 69th Venice Film Festival September 6, 2012. (Reuters File)

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Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos arrives at court with lawyer Gerry Spence. June 28, 1990. (Reuters File)

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