Por Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN

El exesposo de la ex primera dama de EE.UU., la Dra. Jill Biden, fue acusado de homicidio por la muerte de su actual esposa, informaron las autoridades este martes.

William Stevenson, de 77 años, fue detenido en relación con la muerte de su esposa Linda Stevenson, de 64 años, que fue encontrada inconsciente en diciembre en una casa del condado de New Castle, en Delaware, según la policía.

Fue procesado y se encuentra detenido en la Institución Correccional Howard Young con una fianza de US$ 500.000. Por el momento se desconoce si cuenta con representación legal.

Stevenson estuvo casado con Jill Biden desde 1970 hasta su divorcio en 1975. La oficina pospresidencial de Biden se negó a comentar sobre el arresto y los cargos contra Stevenson.

Las autoridades llegaron a la vivienda tras recibir una llamada sobre una disputa doméstica, segín la policía en su comunicado inicial sobre el incidente. La policía no ha dado más detalles sobre la investigación ni sobre la causa o las circunstancias de la muerte de Linda Stevenson.

Linda era descrita como una persona “muy centrada en la familia” a la que le gustaba irse de vacaciones con su hija y su nieta y apoyar a los Philadelphia Eagles, según su obituario.

En los últimos años, fundó una empresa de contabilidad y entabló amistad con varios de sus clientes.

“Linda será recordada como una persona tenaz, bondadosa y muy leal”, decía el obituario. “Su fuerza, su resistencia y su amor inquebrantable por su familia y amigos nunca serán olvidados, y su ausencia será profundamente sentida por todos los que la conocieron”.

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London (CNN) — Britain’s political class is being shaken by a scandal the scale of which typically comes around only once in a generation, and the man at the heart of it was once seen as the savior of the party that is currently in power.

Peter Mandelson, a former British ambassador to the United States who is credited with helping to create the modern version of the Labour Party that propelled Tony Blair to power in 1997, is now facing a criminal investigation stemming from the US Justice Department’s latest release of material relating to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Mandelson, 72, is accused of passing on market-sensitive information that was of clear financial interest to Epstein in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Gordon Brown, Britain’s prime minister at the time, said Tuesday that he has written to the police with information relevant to its investigation and slammed Mandelson for his “inexcusable and unpatriotic” act.

The scandal may have been less potent if Mandelson — who was twice previously forced to resign from government due to his ties to wealthy individuals — had not been plucked from the private sector by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to serve as Britain’s ambassador to Washington, despite his well-known friendship with Epstein.

Although Starmer fired Mandelson as ambassador after just seven months in Washington during the fallout from an earlier release of Epstein files, the prime minister’s initial decision to appoint him has snowballed into a crisis for his beleaguered Labour government, which could yet result in more political scalps.

Who is Peter Mandelson?

Dubbed, somewhat melodramatically, the “Prince of Darkness” for his Machiavellian approach to power, Mandelson became Labour’s director of communications in the 1980s. He helped turn a party seen as sclerotic and captive to trade unions into the polished, market-friendly project known as “New Labour,” which eventually won a landslide election in 1997 under Tony Blair.

Having helped propel Labour to power, Mandelson was appointed “minister without portfolio,” which allowed him to attend cabinet meetings and gave him broad powers across the government. But little over a year into the role, he was forced to resign in 1998 for failing to declare a loan he obtained from a millionaire colleague to help him buy a house.

Despite leaving in disgrace, he returned to the government the next year as trade secretary, before resigning again in 2001 over claims that he used his position to influence a British passport application from a wealthy donor.

Mandelson then left the government for Brussels, serving as the European Union’s commissioner for trade from 2004 to 2008. He returned a third time to help revive the ailing government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown as it grappled with the fallout from the 2008 financial crisis, this time serving as business secretary.

After Labour lost the 2010 general election, Mandelson spent more than a decade in the private sector. Last year, however, he was tapped by Prime Minister Keir Starmer for the role of British ambassador to the US. The decision was seen at the time as risky: Starmer wanted a political heavyweight to hold his own in the Washington of US President Donald Trump. So he traded Karen Pierce — a career diplomat seen as a safe pair of hands — for the more mercurial Mandelson.

When did the Epstein links emerge?

Starmer’s decision backfired within months. In September, the US J

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(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Nancy Reagan, wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Personal:
Birth date: July 6, 1921

Death date: March 6, 2016

Birth place: New York, New York

Birth name: Anne Frances Robbins

Father: Kenneth Robbins, car salesman and insurance agent

Mother: Edith (Luckett) Davis, actress

Marriage: Ronald Reagan (March 4, 1952-June 5, 2004, his death)

Children: Ronald Prescott, May 1958; Patricia Ann, October 1952

Education: Smith College, B.A., 1943

Other Facts:
Nancy was her childhood nickname. Davis was the last name of her stepfather, Dr. Loyal Davis, a neurosurgeon, who legally adopted her at age 16.

Strong supporter of the Foster Grandparents program, a service that pairs senior citizens with needy children.

As first lady of the United States, Reagan campaigned against drug and alcohol abuse among youth, acting as a spokeswoman for the “Just Say No” campaign.

Timeline:
1940s – Appears in stage productions.

March 2, 1949 – Signs a seven-year contract with MGM Studios.

1949-1957 – Appears in eleven films.

1949 – Meets Ronald Reagan, then president of the Screen Actors Guild.

1957 – Appears in her last film, “Hellcats of the Navy,” opposite her husband.

January 3, 1967 – Becomes the first lady of California when husband Ronald Reagan is sworn in as Governor.

January 20, 1981 – Becomes the first lady of the United States when Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th president.

October 1987 – Undergoes a mastectomy after a biopsy reveals a malignancy.

1994 – Ronald Reagan announces that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

October 1995 – The Reagans establish the Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute to support Alzheimer’s research.

2002 – Is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush.

May 8, 2004 – Attends a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation event and gives a speech advocating for embryonic stem cell research.

June 3, 2009 – Unveils a statue of President Ronald Reagan in the Capitol Rotunda.

January 16, 2015 – Reagan announces that the Reagan Foundation will partner and host the GOP presidential candidates debate in 2015 with CNN. Nancy Reagan believes that her husband “announced his candidacy for the U.S. presidency because the citizens of this country wanted a president who could inspire…and it is time to find a new leader.”

March 6, 2016 – Reagan dies at her home in Los Angeles of congestive heart failure.

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