内容摘要：“Every Memorial Day, I think about a graduate of this institution, Major Megan McClung,” Vance said. “She was an officer I served with who was bright, tough and incredibly dedicated to her job.” He said McClung arrived in Iraq not long before he did and was killed not long after that.

“Every Memorial Day, I think about a graduate of this institution, Major Megan McClung,” Vance said. “She was an officer I served with who was bright, tough and incredibly dedicated to her job.” He said McClung arrived in Iraq not long before he did and was killed not long after that.

, presided over the graveside service for Sen. Ted Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery in 2009, and celebrated Mass with Pope Francis during his 2015 visit to Washington.This story has been corrected to reflect that McCarrick died Thursday, instead of Friday.

Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’swith The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content.NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Paul “Greg” House, who spent two decades on Tennessee’s death row before he was finally freed, and later campaigned against the death penalty, died on March 22 at the age of 63, according to his longtime attorneys.

“Mr. House’s innocence was indefatigably championed by his attorneys and by his mother, Joyce House,” a statement from Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee reads. “Although Mr. House spent far too many years wrongly convicted and facing execution, he was able to spend 17 years after his release with Joyce and his other family. He died peacefully with the knowledge that his innocence had been recognized.”House died of complications from pneumonia after living for many years with multiple sclerosis.

House was convicted in 1986 and sentenced to death in the killing of neighbor Carolyn Muncey in rural Union County, Tennessee. House maintained his innocence through years of appeals. At one point in 2004, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to overturn a state ruling that denied House a new trial. One of the dissenting judges, Judge Ronald Lee Gilman, was so concerned that he wrote, “I am convinced that we are faced with a real-life murder mystery, an authentic ‘who-done-it’ where the wrong man may be executed.”

The case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, where in 2006 the majority concluded that House would not have been convicted based on the DNA evidence that emerged years after his trial.LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89.

He was a prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los Perros) and “Feast of the Goat,” and won myriad prizes. The Nobel committee said it was awarding him in 2010 “for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.”“It is with deep sorrow that we announce that our father, Mario Vargas Llosa, passed away peacefully in Lima today, surrounded by his family,” read a letter signed by his children Álvaro, Gonzalo and Morgana, and posted by Álvaro on X.

Peru’s Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa rearranges his hat during ceremonies for his conferment of the degree of Doctor of Literature, Honoris Causa, at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)Peru’s Nobel Literature Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa rearranges his hat during ceremonies for his conferment of the degree of Doctor of Literature, Honoris Causa, at the De La Salle University in Manila, Philippines, Nov. 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)