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The political world mourned Nancy Reagan on Sunday, with Republican presidential candidates current and former honoring the former first lady and calling her death the end of an influential era in the party. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz tweeted: "Nancy Reagan will be remembered for her deep passion for this nation and love for her husband, Ronald. The Reagan family is in our prayers." Donald Trump, the GOP front-runner, said on Twitter, "Nancy Reagan, the wife of a truly great President, was an amazing woman. She will be missed!" Florida Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted: "Today our nation mourns the loss of Nancy Reagan, a true example of integrity and grace. My prayers are with the entire Reagan family." And at a campaign stop in Idaho Falls, ahead of Tuesday's Idaho primary, Rubio said that "Nancy's passing reminds me that we're coming to the end" of the Reagan era. "This is not just about nostalgia. Ronald Reagan was the conserva...

Ray Tomlinson, widely credited as the creator of email, has died. His employer, Raytheon, told CNN on Sunday. He was 74. Tomlinson invented direct email messages in 1971. Before his invention, electronic messages could be shared only on a very limited network. Among those paying tribute was Gmail, one of many offshoots of Tomlinson's creation. "Thank you, Ray Tomlinson, for inventing email and putting the @ sign on the map," Gmail's Twitter account said. Tomlinson, a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MIT, was working for a Boston technology firm in 1971 when he decided to figure out a way for people to send messages via computer. At the time, Tomlinson recalled, ARPANET -- the Internet's predecessor -- was fairly new and the idea of sending messages from computer to computer was novel. Computers themselves were often giant mainframe beasts that filled entire rooms. "Computers were very expensive -- I think one we had here, f...