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“By law, family members usually don’t have to pay the debts of a deceased relative from their own money,” the FTC says.

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“One of the deceased victims would appear to have suffered a wound consistent with a gunshot injury,” Greater Manchester Police said Friday.

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Two weeks have passed since the representative-elect handily won Arizona’s special election, filling a seat vacated by her deceased father.

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In 1877, Congress even passed a law prohibiting it, which says that “only the portrait of deceased individuals may occur on the United States currency and securities.”

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In November, a fifth beluga died in a year, taking the total number of deceased whales since 2019 to 20, according to news agency the Canadian Press.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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