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Navajo Nation hosting a memorial for late tribal president

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FILE - In this March 4, 2015, file photo, then-Rep. Albert Hale, D-St. Michaels, talks at the Arizona Capitol in Phoenix. Hale, who served as the second president of the Navajo Nation in the 1990s, died Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021. A cause of death and an exact age for Hale was not immediately available. But tribal officials said Hale was in his early 70s and was battling COVID-19 when the Navajo Nation Council heard of his condition last Friday. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Ex-Navajo Nation president dies of coronavirus complications

By FELICIA FONSECA - Associated Press