Presidential historian William Leuchtenburg dies
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Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the US presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, has died at 102.
New York landmarks were lit in yellow for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as Governor Hochul honored the 6 million Jews killed during the Holocaust.