Former US Ambassador to the UN.
Just announced.
Former U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, a one-time Democrat who switched to the Republican Party and warmly embraced Reagan-era conservatism, has died. She was 80. Kirkpatrick's death was announced at the senior staff meeting of the U.S. mission to the United Nations, said spokesman Richard Grenell, who said that Ambassador John Bolton asked for a moment of silence.