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Donald Rumsfeld, the former secretary of defence who oversaw the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq under President George W Bush’s administration, died at the age of 88, his family said on Wednesday. Mr Rumsfeld served as US secretary of defence under two administrations, and became the youngest-ever person to serve in the role when in 1975 he was confirmed during President Gerald Ford’s administration. Under Mr Ford, he oversaw the US’ transition from a drafted military to an all-volunteer system. His most notable contributions to US foreign policy came under the second Bush adminis...

Robert Burns FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2019, file photo, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attends a wreath laying ceremony with former President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Mark Esper on the grounds of the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial at the Pentagon. The family of Rumsfeld says he has died. He was 88. ( (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) June 30, 2021 - 8:22 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern U.S. military ...

Rumsfeld FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2011, file photo, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld speaks to politicians and academics during a luncheon on security in rising Asia, in Taipei, Taiwan. The family of Rumsfeld says he has died. He was 88. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File) Previous Next Thursday, July 01, 2021 1:00 am Defense boss after 9/11 attacks dies Rumsfeld left over Iraq war ROBERT BURNS | Associated Press WASHINGTON – Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visi...

The Virginia Department of Social Services is on East Main Street in downtown Richmond. A new state office is designed to give a voice to Virginia families and social workers who have had nowhere to turn with complaints about their local social services agencies — a problem that has plagued child welfare for at least four decades. Gov. Ralph Northam has appointed attorney Eric Reynolds as Virginia’s first children’s ombudsman, more than a year after legislation establishing the office was signed into law. Reynolds started Friday and will serve a four-year term. He will report d...

The family said he “was surrounded by family in his beloved Taos, New Mexico”. Mr Rumsfeld was regarded by former colleagues as smart and combative, patriotic and politically cunning, and had a storied career under four presidents and nearly a quarter of a century in corporate America. But his reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern US military was soiled by the long and costly Iraq war. In 2001 he began his second tour as Pentagon chief under George W Bush, but his plan to “transform” the armed forces was overshadowed by the September 11 terrorist attacks. He ove...