Dolores Huerta, Who Founded United Farm Workers With Cesar Chavez, Dies

28 October 2026 at 19:49

She founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez. In early 2026, she told The Times that she had been raped by him decades earlier. She was 96.

Ms. Huerta organizing marchers in Coachella, Calif., in 1969. Ms. Huerta was the vice president of the United Farm Workers for nearly four decades.

Susan Saint James, Emmy Winner Who Starred in ‘Kate & Allie,’ Dies at 80

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By: Christine Hauser

27 October 2026 at 23:17

In a long career, she was best known for starring opposite Jane Curtin in “Kate & Allie,” a 1980s sitcom about two divorced women raising three children in New York City.

Susan Saint James in 2025. Kate McArdle, her character on “Kate & Allie,” was “a free spirit caught up in the radical movement” of the 1960s, a publicist said, while Allie (Jane Curtin) was a “traditionalist.”

Walter Koenig, Chekov From ‘Star Trek,’ Has Died

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By: Anita Gates

26 October 2026 at 21:32

As the baby-faced Russian navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise, he was a mainstay of the original television series and seven films. He was 90.

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