Former Three-Term Republican Senator Dies at Age 88

Former U.S. Sen. David Durenberger, a Minnesota Republican who espoused a progressive brand of politics and criticized the GOP after his political career, died Tuesday at age 88.
Durenberger’s health had declined in recent months, his longtime spokesman, Tom Horner, said.
Horner told The Associated Press that Durenberger died Tuesday morning of natural causes. He was at his St. Paul home surrounded by family.
Durenberger — a former executive secretary to GOP Gov. Harold LeVander, for