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Source: New York Times
Rush Limbaugh, the relentlessly provocative voice of conservative America who dominated talk radio for more than three decades with shooting-gallery attacks on liberals, Democrats, feminists, environmentalists and other moving targets, died on Wednesday. He was 70.
His wife, Kathryn, announced the death at the beginning of Mr. Limbaughs radio show.
I know that I am most certainly not the Limbaugh that you tuned in to listen to today, she said before adding that Mr. Limbaugh had died of lung cancer that morning.
He had announced on his show last February that he had advanced lung cancer. A day later, President Donald J. Trump awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nations highest civilian honor, during the State of the Union address.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/business/media/rush-limbaugh-dead.html
ON EDIT - changed source to New York Times.