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Radio and TV host Larry King dies at 87

The Verge

King started his career in local radio in Florida in the 1950s, according to the New York Times obituar y, and began a national radio call-in show in 1978. Not, ‘What about Geneva or Cuba?’ At one time a heavy smoker, King was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2017. “Whether he was interviewing a U.S. I ask, ‘Mr.

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How romance scams are thriving during quarantine

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He was a successful businessman who worked in solar energy, drove a Mercedes, and had two houses — one in Cuba and another in the US. Later, he began laying the groundwork for the financial fraud, which involved a joint business venture in Cuba. She’d been with her husband for nearly 20 years before he died from cancer in 2017.

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