Nancy Kassebaum Baker, trailblazing GOP senator who broke barriers for women in Congress, dead at 94

Former Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker of Kansas, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without previously having a husband serve in Congress, died Friday at 94.

Her son, Bill Kassebaum, told The Associated Press that she died of natural causes.

"She loved Kansas. She loved people from Kansas and representing Kansas for 18 years in the U.S. Senate," he told the AP. "She was an independent-minded Republican who was willing to stand up for what she thought was right, even...