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CBS News under fire over glaring omission in Dennis Hastert death announcement

CBS News set off a firestorm of criticism over its announcement on social media that disgraced former House speaker Dennis Hastert has died at 84. The longest-serving Republican House speaker was sentenced to 15 months in prison, making him the highest-ranking elected U.S. official to serve a prison sentence, after pleading guilty to illegally…

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Disgraced former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dies at 84Former Rep. Dennis Hastert, who spent eight years as House speaker and later served prison time for scheming to cover up sexual abuse allegations, is dead.

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Highest-ranking US official to ever serve jail time, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert dead at 84Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., died at 84 as the highest-ranking U.S. official to ever serve jail time for federal banking crimes linked to hush money payments.

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Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84Dennis Hastert, who served as House speaker longer than any other Republican but later was sent to prison in a hush-money case, has died

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Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84Hastert, who was speaker from 1999 until 2007 and spent more than a year in prison later in life, died Saturday of natural causes at his home while receiving hospice care.

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Dennis Hastert, disgraced ex-House speaker, dies at 84Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican House speaker in U.S. history who later admitted to sexually abusing several teenage boys, died Saturday at 84. The big picture: Hastert was the highest-ranking elected official in U.S. history to serve time in federal prison, and Congress still conducts business under an unwritten rule named after him.…

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