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Mike Gravel, former US senator for Alaska, dies at 91

| June 28, 2021 12:09 AM

SEASIDE, Calif. (AP) — Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a later presidential run, has died. He was 91.

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