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Senator Dianne Feinstein, known for her independent streak and long tenure in the Senate, has died at the age of 90 following a period of deteriorating health.
Dianne Feinstein, a long-serving Democratic senator from California and gun control advocate who spearheaded the first federal assault weapons ban and documented the CIA's torture of foreign terrorism suspects, has died at 90, a source familiar with the news said on Friday.
The 90-year-old Democrat was the longest-serving female senator in US history but had been dogged by questions over her mental acuity and health in recent years.
Her death will force Gov. Gavin Newsom to make a crucial decision he said recently he hoped he wouldn't have to do: appoint a replacement.
Dianne Feinstein, California’s longest-serving U.S. senator who led San Francisco through its darkest and most violent days as mayor in the 1970s and later authored a federal ban on assault