Barney Frank, gay rights trailblazer who shape post-2008 financial reforms, dies at 86

BOSTON—Former U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, the 4th Congressional District Massachusetts Democrat who became one of the first openly gay members of Congress and a leading author of the landmark financial reforms that followed the 2007-2008 housing crash, has died. He was 86. Frank died Tuesday night at his home in Ogunquit, Maine, after entering hospice […]