Evel Knievel Dies at 69

By MITCH STACY – 47 minutes ago

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose exploits made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.

Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel. He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.

Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one of his bone-shattering spills.

BREAKING: Hostage Situation at Hillary Campaign HQ

A man who claimed he had a bomb strapped to his body walked into a Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, N.H., and has taken at least one and as many as four hostages, sources say.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said it is "a hostage situation involving a Clinton staffer."

One federal law enforcement official told ABC News there are four possible hostages at the Clinton office, but that there was no federal involvement at this time.

Clinton was not at the New Hampshire office at the time, and canceled an appearance at the Democratic National Committee office in the Washington, D.C., area, Dean said.

ABC News' David Wright, Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan contributed to this report.

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Max Blumenthal's latest takes us on a shocking and at times bizarre tour of right-wing Pastor John Hagee's annual Washington-Israel Summit, blowing the cover off the Christian Zionist movement in the process. Starring Joe Lieberman, Tom DeLay, Pastor John Hagee, Ambassador Dore Gold and a host of rapture-ready evangelicals praying for Armaggedon

Please understand that people of this mindset are controlling George W. Bush.

Ask again, WHY are we in the middle east??

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