George Carlin, a Grammy award-winning comedian whose routine about “The Seven Words You Can Never Say on 浦汇fxpro Television” was the subject of a U.S. Supreme Court decision, died of heart failure in California yesterday. He was 71.

Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after a sudden heart attack at the bureau, NBC News said Friday. He was 58.

He was “one of the premier political journalists and analysts of his time,” Tom Brokaw, the former longtime anchor of “NBC Nightly News,” said in announcing Russert’s death. “This news division will not be the same without his strong, clear voice.”