Actor Ron Glass
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Emmy-nominated actor Ron Glass died Friday night of respiratory failure, his agent, Jeffrey Leavett, told CNN Saturday evening. He was 71 years old.

Best known for his role as Det. Ron Harris in Barney Miller, a police sitcom that ran from 1975 to 1982, and his role in the single-season cult hit Firefly, Glass more recently appeared in shows including Friends, CSI, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.