Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a former U.S. senator from Kansas, has died at age 94. She was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without having first followed a spouse into office, and she later became the first woman to chair a major Senate committee. Known as an independent-minded Republican willing to break with her party, she also called for Donald Trump's impeachment after the attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Coverage is sparse: NYT offers only a short teaser noting her moderate Republican identity and a quote about not being able to get elected today; The Guardian provides a brief wire-style summary focused on her historic first as a woman elected to the Senate without a spouse precedent, with no further political framing or detail.
ABC News (via AP) provides an extensive, largely biographical obituary emphasizing her moderate Republican independence, bipartisan legislative achievements, her family background, career history, and her later-life break with the GOP including support for Democrats and calls for Trump's impeachment after Jan. 6.
Fox News frames her primarily as a 'trailblazing' barrier-breaking woman in Congress, covering similar biographical and legislative details as ABC, including her bipartisan record, her break with the GOP, and her call for Trump's impeachment, presented in a straightforward factual manner similar to the center account.