Former U.S. secretary of state Madeline Albright dead at 84

Mar 23, 2022 07:00 pm News 258

Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve as secretary of state for the United States, has died at the age of 84. Albright's family said in a statement that Albright died Wednesday. She had been diagnosed with cancer. Born in Prague in what is now the Czech Republic, Albright emigrated to the U.S. as a child. She served as President Bill Clinton's secretary of state, the 64th in the nation's history, from 1997 until the end of Clinton's second term. More to come