California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein has died at the age of 90.
Although her health had been declining for some time, she had refused recent calls to step down from her seat. She was known as a trailblazer, and her death comes as the Senate confronts a deadline over a potential government shutdown.
Here & Now’s Celeste Headlee talks with Marisa Lagos, political correspondent for KQED.
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