- Title: Former U.S. Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, dead at 87
- Date: 30th July 2021
- Summary: TUNIS, TUNISIA (JULY 26, 2021) (REUTERS) CLASHES BETWEEN ENNAHDA SUPPORTERS AND PRESIDENT KAIS SAIED SAID SUPPORTERS IN FRONT OF PARLIAMENT BUILDING / CHANTS HEARD IN BACKGROUND INJURED MAN BLEEDING VARIOUS OF TWO SIDES THROWING STONES AT EACH OTHER / CHANTS HEARD IN BACKGROUND TUNIS, TUNISIA (JULY 26, 2021) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF HEAD OF ENNAHDA PARTY, RACHED
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- Keywords: U.S. Senate former Senator Carl Levin
- Location: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
- City: WASHINGTON, D.C., UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Government/Politics,United States
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- Story Text: Former U.S. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, a long-serving Democratic leader who strenuously opposed the Iraq War and investigated U.S. detainee abuse while fighting corporate fraud, has died at age 87, his family said late on Thursday (July 29).
Levin had been battling lung cancer, a diagnosis he revealed in a memoir published in March this year.
He died at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, surrounded by loved ones, according to family spokesperson Jim Townsend, director of the Wayne State University law school's Levin Center.
The Detroit native, known for his rumpled appearance and sharp mind, was the longest-serving senator ever from Michigan, elected to six consecutive six-year terms starting in 1978, when he defeated a senior incumbent Republican.
Levin long served as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and led a separate investigations panel from which he grilled business executives engaged in misconduct, including the Enron scandal, then the largest case of U.S. corporate fraud on record.
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