Hastert era closes with a final reckoning

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Hastert era closes with a final reckoning

NPR marks the death of former House speaker Dennis Hastert at 84.

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Dennis Hastert, longtime Republican House speaker who went to prison, dies at age 84

ennis Hastert, whose political legacy as Congress' longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84.

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NPR reports that former House speaker Dennis Hastert has died at age 84, closing a chapter in congressional politics still shadowed by his later disgrace and prison term. The obituary revisits a once-powerful GOP figure whose fall reshaped the House's history.

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