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Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, arrives during a funeral ceremony at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 8, 2023. From a hot dog vendor to head of the formidable mercenary army Wagner Group, Prigozhin's rise through Russian society could easily be described as meteoric. But it all came to a sudden end when the plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded on Aug 23, 2023. (AP Photo, file)

Year in review: Influential people who died in 2023

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, arrives during a funeral ceremony at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 8, 2023. From a hot dog vendor to head of the formidable mercenary army Wagner Group, Prigozhin's rise through Russian society could easily be described as meteoric. But it all came to a sudden end when the plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded on Aug 23, 2023. (AP Photo, file)

Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2023

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Friends and admirers of former Gov. Richardson are mourning the hard-charging politician whose career spanned the globe. Richardson’s casket was scheduled to lie in state on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, in the rotunda of the New Mexico Statehouse. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Bill Clinton and other dignitaries remember Bill Richardson during funeral Mass

By Morgan Lee - Associated Press

Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Friends and admirers of former Gov. Richardson are mourning the hard-charging politician whose career spanned the globe. Richardson’s casket was scheduled to lie in state on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, in the rotunda of the New Mexico Statehouse. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Bill Richardson is mourned in New Mexico after globe-trotting career, lies in state at Capitol

By Morgan Lee - Associated Press

Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico who later was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and dedicated his post-political career to working to free Americans detained overseas, has died, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Bill Richardson, a former governor and U.N. ambassador who worked to free detained Americans, dies

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Polish soldiers begin laying a razor wire barrier along Poland's border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in Wisztyniec, Poland, on Wednesday Nov. 2, 2022. At the beginning of November 2022, Polish soldiers began laying coils of razor wire on the border with Kaliningrad, a Russian region wedged between Poland and Lithuania. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc, File)

Russia releases U.S. Navy veteran who crossed border

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Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson speaks to reporters after a news conference in New York, Nov. 16, 2021. Richardson, who has worked to secure the releases of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another jailed American, Paul Whelan, visited Moscow this week and held meetings with Russian leaders. That's according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press on Tuesday night, Sept. 13, 2022.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Bill Richardson visits Moscow as Brittney Griner, Paul Whelan remain jailed

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Trevor Reed, left, a Texas resident arrested in Russia in 2019, is greeted by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, at a military airfield in Texas, Thursday, April 28, 2022. (Jonathan Franks via AP)

An Oval Office visit and a Moscow trip: Inside the Reed deal

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

U.S. journalist Danny Fenster works out of his van that he made into a home/office in Detroit in 2018. Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson said Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, American journalist Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar. (Fenster Family photo via AP, File)

American journalist Danny Fenster is freed in Myanmar, allowed to return to the U.S.

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This undated file photo posted on Twitter on June 18, 2020 by Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, shows CITGO oil executives, from left, Jose Angel Pereira, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Jose Luis Zambrano, Tomeu Vadell and Alirio Jose Zambrano, standing outside the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service, in Caracas, Venezuela. The six men, five Venezuelan-Americans, and one a permanent U.S. resident were lured to Caracas for a meeting in late 2017 at the offices of the Houston-based company's parent, state-run oil giant PDVSA when masked security agents entered a boardroom and hauled them away. (Posted on Twitter by Jorge Arreaza/Venezuela's Foreign Ministry via AP, File)

2 American oil execs jailed in Venezuela put on home arrest

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FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2018 file photo, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson gives an interview in Yangon, Myanmar. Richardson will travel the week of July 13, 2020, to Venezuela to urge President Nicolás Maduro to free several jailed Americans as a goodwill gesture aimed at easing tensions with the U.S., according to The Richardson Center in an annoucement on Monday, July 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Thet Htoo, File)

Ex-US governor says Americans not released from Venezuela

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The motorcade transporting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un makes it way down a street in Hanoi, Vietnam, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Kim is in town for a summit with President Donald Trump. Trump and Kim first met last June in Singapore. But that face-to-face hasn't resulted in any solid plan for ridding the North of nuclear weapons. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S., North Korea far apart on defining end to nuclear programs: Bill Richardson

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 3, 2015, photo, village elder Kim Ri Jun digs up a burlap sack which he claims contains the remains belonging to a soldier who fought in the Korean War from a burial site on Ryongyon-ri hill in Kujang county, North Korea. Nearly 7,800 U.S. troops remain unaccounted for from the Korean War. About 5,300 were lost in North Korea. More than six decades after they died for their country, the repatriation of the remains of thousands of U.S. troops missing in action and presumed dead from the Korean War may finally get a boost now that U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are expected to hold the first-ever summit between their two countries. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Trump, Kim summit may boost recovery of US Korea War remains

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Laborers work at newly-built repatriation camps prepared for the planned return of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, in Maung Daw township, border town of northern Rakhine State, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

AP Interview: Richardson resigns from Rohingya refugee panel

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo, in handcuffs, talks as he leaves court Wednesday, Jan.10, 2018, outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Richardson seeks to resolve Myanmar crisis, free journalists

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

Laurie Holt holds a photo of her son during an interview at their home Wednesday, June 28, 2017, in Riverton, Utah. Still imprisoned after a year, his parents are growing worried their son will die in the Caracas jail with no relief in sight and growing volatility in the South American country. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

1 year later, Utah man stuck in Venezuela jail amid unrest

By BRADY McCOMBS and JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

LSU: Medical marijuana available summer 2018, at earliest

By MELINDA DESLATTE - Associated Press

In this Sept. 26, 2016, file photo, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton listens to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the U.S. presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

Hillary Clinton campaign WikiLeaks emails reveal disdain for Catholics, Southerners, ‘needy Latinos’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

"I think this should be abolished, but it probably won't be because it challenges the turf of some members of Congress. I fought very strongly against it."
— Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson

Bill Richardson, ex-New Mexico governor, endorses Hillary Clinton for president

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Image: Twitter, House Foreign Affairs Committee

Andrew Tahmooressi back on American soil after months in Mexican jail

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times